Dozens of people are feared to have died in a heatwave gripping Karachi this week, a charity said on Tuesday, as temperatures hit 42°C.
The non-profit Edhi Foundation said scores may have been killed by the sweltering weather, with double the usual number of bodies sent to the city’s morgues.
“We have received 180 dead bodies in the last four days which is more than double of what we receive normally,” said Faisal Edhi, head of the welfare organisation. “The majority of these were sudden deaths because of the heatwave as claimed by their relatives, which we cannot independently verify.”
The provincial government in Sindh disputed the estimate. “Only one casualty has been reported due to heat stroke so far,” said Muhammad Ali Shaikh, Director of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority in Sindh.
