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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Heat kills 67 in West Bengal in a day

Heat kills 67 in West Bengal in a day

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published Published on Jun 6, 2012   modified Modified on Jun 6, 2012
-The Times of India

The relentless heat killed 67 more people across West Bengal on Tuesday, six of them in Kolkata, pushing up the death toll to 86 in just two days. Five prize horses also died despite water and ice therapy. The Met department has warned that it will get worse as the wait for the monsoon stretches to mid-June.

This is perhaps the highest number of heat-related deaths in the state in decades. It doesn't matter if you are 18 and fit as a fiddle or 70 and ailing. The heat has spared none. 

Alarmed by the worsening weather, the state has extended summer vacations till June 17 by when the rains are expected to have arrived. Three lawyers' associations have decided to stay away from work till Friday. 

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee convened a cabinet meeting on Tuesday to come to grips with the heat wave. "If you have no work in the state secretariat please go to the districts to reach out to the people," the CM told her ministers. 

Asansol, which sizzled at 46.5 degrees Celsius, suffered the worst. Thirty-one people dropped dead during the day, while at least 50 were hospitalized. Twenty-one people died in Midnapore. The heat struck so quickly that many succumbed within moments; some died at the doorsteps of hospitals. 

Kolkata had another terrible day in the cauldron as six people died, five of them in Behala-Thakurpukur. Three people died at Howrah station soon after arriving by the Amritsar Express and a railway employee died in the welding shed of Liluah workshop. 

For the second day, the maximum temperature in Kolkata soared to 40 degrees Celsius, five degrees above normal, while the discomfort index was an unbearable 71 degrees.

The Times of India, 6 June, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Heat-kills-67-in-West-Bengal-in-a-day/articleshow/13859855.cms


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