Hospitals overwhelmed as heatwave deaths near 1,500 - The Times of India: "NEW DELHI: Hospitals were struggling on Thursday to cope with an influx of victims of a blistering heatwave that has claimed nearly 1,500 lives in just over a week.
Hundreds of people, mainly from the poorest sections of society, die at the height of summer every year in India, but this year's figures are unusually high.
In Andhra Pradesh - by far the worst-hit state - 1,020 people have died since May 18, more than double the number of heat-related deaths for the whole of last year.
In neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, 340 people have died from the heat recently compared to 31 in the whole of last year."
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Hundreds of people, mainly from the poorest sections of society, die at the height of summer every year in India, but this year's figures are unusually high.
In Andhra Pradesh - by far the worst-hit state - 1,020 people have died since May 18, more than double the number of heat-related deaths for the whole of last year.
In neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, 340 people have died from the heat recently compared to 31 in the whole of last year."
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