Four people died in “unbearable” heat while traveling by train in northern India, which has been in the grip of a heatwave for two weeks, officials and passengers said Tuesday. “When the train was approaching Jhansi, we got a call from the onboard staff that one of the passengers is unconscious,” Singh said. Temperatures have hovered around 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in Jhansi, in northern Uttar Pradesh state, in recent days. Much of India has been sweltering in temperatures that have risen above 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern Rajasthan state. Temperatures touched 50.3 degrees Celsius in the Rajasthan town of Churu recently, just below India’s record of 51 degrees.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 12, 2019 08:15 UTC