KARACHI: At least 600 people have died from a 3-day heatwave in Karachi as medics battled to treat victims after a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.
The death toll in worst-hit Karachi, where temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) was at least 600.
The doctor Semi Jamali at Karachi`s largest hospital said they had treated about 3000 patients suffering from heat stroke.
“More than 200 of them were either received dead or died in hospital,” Jamali told. Pakistan`s largest charity, Edhi Welfare Organisation, said their two morgues in the city had received more than 400corpses.
“More than 400 dead bodies have so far been received in our two mortuaries in past three days,” Edhi spokesman Anwar Kazmi told.
“The mortuaries have reached capacity.”
Pakistan’s Met Office said temperatures hit 43 Celsius in Karachi on Sunday and 49 Celsius in the southwestern city of Turbat, close to the Iranian border.
