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Unforgiving heat claims more lives

Friday, 26 June 2015, 11:56
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - The unforgiving heat has spared no one. The very young, the very old and those in the prime of their lives.

Corpses covered in flies lie outside city morgues. Inside, bodies up on bodies are piled high.

Hospitals are overwhelmed, relying on volunteers and donors for ice, water and even spare beds.

By Thursday, the death toll from the oppressive heat wave in Sindh province topped 1,000, officials told CNN.

But even without the numbers, the full extent of the misery isn't hard to gauge.
 

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