A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan\u2019s southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organization said on Tuesday, amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist.<\/p>\n
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A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan\u2019s southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organization said on Tuesday, amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist.<\/p>\n
The heatwave has coincided with power outages and the holy month of Ramadan, when most Muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours. Temperatures hit 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) on Monday, local media reported.<\/p>\n
Faisal Edhi, who runs the Edhi Foundation that operates morgues and an ambulance service in Pakistan\u2019s biggest city, said the deaths occurred mostly in the poor areas of Karachi.<\/p>\n
\u201cSixty-five people have died over the last three days,\u201d Edhi told Reuters. \u201cWe have the bodies in our cold storage facilities and their neighborhood doctors have said they died of heat-stroke.\u201d<\/p>\n
A government spokesperson could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n
But Sindh province\u2019s Health Secretary Fazlullah Pechuho told the English-language Dawn newspaper that no one has died from heat-stroke.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly doctors and hospitals can decide whether the cause of death was heat-stroke or not. I categorically reject that people have died due to heat-stroke in Karachi,\u201d Pechuho was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, reports of heat stroke deaths in Karachi will stir unease amid fears of a repeat of a heatwave in of 2015, when morgues and hospitals were overwhelmed and at least 1,300 mostly elderly and sick people died from the searing heat.<\/p>\n
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