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Heat wave kills more than 180 in Pakistan's southern Sindh

2015-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: An intense heat wave over three days has killed more than 180 people in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials said on Monday, leading authorities to declare an emergency as the electricity grid crashed and bodies stacked up in the morgues. The outages hit large portions of Pakistan's financial heart of Karachi and home to 20 million people, where residents lit bonfires in protest. Unclaimed bodies were being rapidly buried to create space in the morgues, Anwar Kazmi, a senior official...

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