Thahir Asmal, Radio Islam News – 22-05-2018

A local health organisations claims that a heatwave in the Pakistani city of Karachi has left scores people dead over the past four days.

The local weather bureau has reported temperatures of between 40 and 45 degrees during this period with most of those killed claimed to be in the poor areas of the city.

The heatwave has coincided with power outages and the first few days of Ramadan.

Faisal Edhi, who runs the Edhi Foundation that operates morgues and an ambulance service in Pakistan’s biggest city, told Reuters that they are housing many of the bodies.

“Sixty-five people have died over the last three days. We have the bodies in our cold storage facilities and their neighborhood doctors have said they died of heat-stroke..”

The province’s Health Secretary Fazlullah Pechuho has denied that anyone died.