The four died Monday while travelling from Agra — the city of the Taj Mahal — to Coimbatore in the country’s south. “When the train was approaching Jhansi, we got a call from the on-board 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: The Express Tribune June 11, 2019 17:48 UTC