AHMEDABAD, India: Pakistan issued a heat warning after the hottest March in 61 years while in parts of neighbouring India, schools were shut and streets deserted as an intense heat wave on Friday showed no signs of abating.
Temperatures were predicted to rise by 6 to 8 degrees Celsius above average temperatures after the hottest March on record since 1961, she said. Glaciers in the Himalaya, Hindu Kush and Karkoram mountain ranges have melted rapidly, creating thousands of glacial lakes in northern Pakistan, around 30 of which were at risk of sudden hazardous flooding, the climate change ministry said, adding around 7 million people were vulnerable.
She said that 60 to 70 per cent of the patients were school-aged complaining of vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal colic, weakness and other symptoms.