The toll from the sweltering heat wave in Karachi continued to rise Thursday, surpassing more than 1,000 dead, according to state-run television, even as temperatures began to cool off.
The high temperature in Karachi was 100 degrees Fahrenheit, closer to seasonal averages and several degrees cooler than earlier in the week, as a sea breeze blew over the port city, officials said. The temperature had reached 113 degrees Sunday.
“The temperature will remain normal in the coming days,” said Ghulam Rasool, head of the Met Department.
The number of victims arriving at hospitals slowed considerably, although 35 bodies were received at morgues operated by the Edhi Welfare Organisation, said the group’s spokesman, Anwar Kazmi. It was the lowest number of bodies seen all week at the morgues, which received 750 heat stroke victims over the last five days, Kazmi said.
State-run broadcaster PTV put the death toll at over 1,000.
