More than 40 people have been killed across the country by extremely hot weather and the searing temperatures are expected to last at least a couple more days, officials said on Tuesday. Most of the fatalities have come in Punjab, where temperatures soared to 48 degree Celsius on Monday. Tuesday might get even hotter, a weather official said.
"Thirty people have been killed due to sun-stroke," Punjab health minister Tahir Ali Javed told Reuters.
Sixty people, most of them children, had been admitted to hospitals in the province on Tuesday because of the heat, he said.
At least 12 people have died in Sindh, district officials there said.
Javed said the death toll could rise as the heat wave was expected to last for another couple of days.
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