Pakistan heatwave: Death toll crosses 700 people.

The death toll from an ongoing heatwave in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has passed 700, local media said, as mortuaries reached capacity.

Dawn newspaper said at least 744 people had died in Karachi and 38 in other areas, citing a government official. Hot weather is not unusual during summer months in Pakistan, but prolonged power cuts seem to have made matters worse
The Edhi Welfare Organisation told the AFP news agency that their morgues had received hundreds of corpses and were now full.
Officials have been criticised for not doing enough to tackle the crisis.
"More than 400 dead bodies have so far been received in our two mortuaries in past three days," Edhi spokesperson Anwar Kazmi told AFP. "The mortuaries have reached capacity."

On Tuesday as temperatures reached 45C (113F), Pakistan's PM Nawaz Sharif called for emergency measures and the army was deploying to help set up heat stroke centers. The hope now is that with the expected pre-monsoon rains later in the week the weather will improve. That will certainly provide much-needed respite to millions affected by the heatwave, but it won't change the chronic underlying problems this ever-growing city of 20 million faces - a dysfunctional infrastructure and poor governance
(culled:BBC news)
So strange...lord let there be rain to cool the heat. Where some places are flooded with water and people rendered homeless , then others are dying by heat waves.....God please help us.