Four more die from heatstroke as hot, humid weather persists in Karachi

Four persons died from heatstroke in the city on Wednesday as hot and humid weather conditions persisted and the temperature crossed 40 degrees Celsius for the fourth day in a row, officials said.

Also on Wednesday, bodies of six more persons were recovered from different parts of the metropolis, bringing the total number of such corpses to 35 over the past four days.

The Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) decla­red four deaths from heatstroke.

Dr Imran Sarwar G. Sheikh, the doctor in charge of the emergency department at the CHK, told Dawn that one critically-ill heatstroke patient, who was in his 40s and brought from North Karachi, died during treatment.

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