Two succumb to heat stroke in Punjab

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Chandigarh, May 16 (UNI) Two people died of heat stroke in Punjab as parts of north-west India continued to be under the impact of hot weather conditions with the mercury touching 41.5 degrees at Amritsar and 43.4 degrees Celsius at Hisar today.

An unidentified aged person died due to heat stroke at Goraya, near Phagwara, in Jalandhar district yesterday, a report from Phagwara said. His body was found lying on a roadside. The body had been sent to Phillaur Civil Hospital for postmortem examination.

In another incident, an unidentified Sadhu succumbed to heat wave at the Phagwara Bus Stand last evening, the report added.

With these deaths, the toll due to the current hot climatic condtions rose to 12 in Punjab. Haryana accounted for two deaths, one of them caused by lightning.

Amritsar with 41.5 degrees and Hissar with 43.4 degrees were the hottest places in Punjab and haryana respectively even as the mercury hovered below normal at certain places in the region.

In Punjab, the mercury hovered two degrees below normal at Ludhiana and Patiala, respectively recording 39.0 degrees and 38.1 degrees Celsius. In Haryana, the maximum fell four degrees below normal at Ambala and Karnal, showing 37.2 degrees and 36.4 degrees respectively. Certain areas in Himachal Pradesh experienced rain dipping the temperature.

Chandigarh also recorded a fall in the mercury to 36.2 degrees, two degrees below normal, from 37.8 degrees recorded yesterday. The maximum also stayed two degrees below normal at Delhi registering 38.7 degrees celsius.

The Weather Office here said the fall in the mercury is due to upper air cyclonic conditions lying over Central Pakistan and adjoining north-west Rajasthan and south-west Punjab.

It predicted light to moderate rain or thundershowers at many places in Himachal Pradesh and duststorm or thunderstorm at few places in Haryana and Punjab during the next 24 hours. Hailstorm or thundersquall is likely to occur at isolated places in the area during the period.

UNI VKJ ARB ND1938

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