KARACHI:
At least 25 more people have died in the deadly heatwave in Karachi, on Tuesday. Environmentalists claim that the heatwave is not fully gone, despite improved weather conditions.
Officials said that with 22 more deaths in the city its tally was now 1,256 while the three more deaths in Badin and Thar districts brought the heat-related deaths to 101 in other districts of the province, taking the overall toll to 1,357.
Despite repeated trips to various hospitals of the city by the chief minister and his cabinet ministers till Monday following Pakistan Peoples Party chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s visit to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) on Sunday, the provincial cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday said not a single word of policy, inviting further criticism from the opposition parties.