{"id":31784,"date":"2018-05-22T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=31784"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:44:43","slug":"heatstroke-kills-65-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/heatstroke-kills-65-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatstroke kills 65 in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em; padding: 0em;\">Islamabad,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">At least 65 people have been killed due to heatstroke in the last three days in Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi, where the temperature hit 44 degrees Celsius, media reported on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">At least 114 bodies were brought to the social welfare group Edhi Foundation&#8217;s morgues out of which at least 65 had died from heatstroke, Xinhua news agency reported quoting the head of the foundation Faisal Edhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">Edhi said most of the heatstroke victims had died at their home without getting any medical help on time, adding that the youngest victim was a six-year-old, while the oldest was 78.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">However, health authorities in the city have denied the claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">Pakistan Meteorological Department issued a heatwave warning for Karachi saying that the hot weather was expected to stay between 40-43 degrees in daytime throughout the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyText\">Local reports said that Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar also urged residents to stay indoors during the day to avoid heatstroke.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, At least 65 people have been killed due to heatstroke in the last three days in Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi, where the temperature hit 44 degrees Celsius, media reported on Tuesday. &nbsp; At least 114 bodies were brought to the social welfare group Edhi Foundation&#8217;s morgues out of which at least 65 had died from heatstroke, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31786,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784\/revisions\/31786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}