Tag: heat wave in Pakistan

Heat wave and power cuts take a toll on Karachi’s butchers

JUNE 29 (Reuters) — A deadly heat wave combined with persistent power cuts have taken their toll on Karachi’s butchers, with business falling as residents struggle to keep meat fresh. Sea breezes brought lower temperatures on Friday (June 26), easing the heat that has killed more than 1,150 people around Pakistan’s teeming port city of Karachi during the Muslim fasting month. However, butchers in the city were still seeing a drop in their sales on […]

Bodies pile up in Karachi mortuary as death toll from Pakistan heat wave rises

JUNE 23 (Reuters) — An intense three-day heat wave has killed around 300 people in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, mortuary officials in Karachi said on Monday (June 22). Authorities were forced to declare a state of emergency after the electricity grid crashed and bodies started to stack up in the morgues. Temperatures soared to 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) on Saturday (June 20) and hovered at 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) on Sunday (June 21), […]