Update: Heat waves kill 200 people in Sindh, Pakistan

Update: Heat waves kill 200 people in Sindh, Pakistan

FastnewsJun 22, 2015

Over 200 deaths reported due to heatwave in Karachi, Pakistan.

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(Updated: 1.46 PM)

Update:Update: Heat waves kill 140 people in Sindh, Pakistan

Devastating heat waves have claimed at least 140 lives in Sindh province of Pakistan.

Most of them lost lives in Karachi, the provincial capital and the largest city in Pakistan, where the temperature had reached to 44.8 degrees Celsius on Saturday. According to CNN, this is the highest temperature recorded in the country in past 15 years.

Doctors at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) in Karachi say that because of the heat strokes 85 people were brought in either dead or died in the hospital. (Dawn)