Dozens die in heatwave at Pakistan shrine
Dozens of people have died at a religious festival at a shrine in southern Pakistan during a severe heatwave, officials said on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of devotees attended the death anniversary of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a 13th-century Muslim Sufi saint, at a shrine in Sehwan, 250 kilometres north of Karachi.
People were arriving for the past five days despite temperatures hovering around 47 degrees Celsius.
District health officer doctor Khalid Arain told AFP that 51 people had died since Sunday, including four women.
“Out of the total deaths 45 died of heatwave and suffocation, three died of heart attack, one drowned and two died in road accidents,” Arain said.
Nearly 650 cases of sunstroke were brought to the local hospital in the same period, he said.
The Edhi Welfare Trust, a charity that runs one of Pakistan’s largest fleets of ambulances, put the death toll at 35.
MASSIVE DIP SPIKE ON THE MAGNETOSPHERE @ APPROX 21:00 hrs UTC
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Depth: 69 km
Distances: 139 km NW of Nicosia, Cyprus / pop: 200,452 / local time: 23:30:47.9 2014-06-19
116 km N of Paphos, Cyprus / pop: 35,961 / local time: 23:30:47.9 2014-06-19
63 km SW of Gazipaşa, Turkey / pop: 18,371 / local time: 23:30:47.9 2014-06-19
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152km (94mi) SSW of Arica, Chile
203km (126mi) SSW of Tacna, Peru
245km (152mi) SSE of Ilo, Peru
456km (283mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia
MAGNITUDE 5.7 OFFSHORE TARAPACA, CHILE
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Distances: 446 km SW of La Paz, Bolivia / pop: 812,799 / local time: 15:54:09.2 2014-06-19
71 km NW of Iquique, Chile / pop: 227,499 / local time: 15:54:09.2 2014-06-19
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221 km N of Luganville / pop: 13,397 / local time: 21:17:00.0 2014-06-19
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228km (142mi) SSW of Tacna, Peru
248km (154mi) NNW of Tocopilla, Chile
483km (300mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia
Landslide forces 35 families to evacuate their homes in North Cotabato, Philippines
The local government unit of Arakan evacuated 35 peasant families away from a hilly district in the municipality where a landslide destroyed houses and crops Wednesday following two days of heavy rains.
Arakan Mayor Rene Rubino, chairman of the municipal disaster mitigation council, said five houses in Barangay Napaliko in the east of the municipality were buried in mud and rocks that cascaded from higher grounds, loosened by heavy rains two days before.
“Fortunately there were no reports of casualties,” Rubino said.
The office of North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza has dispatched relief workers to Arakan to help the local government unit attend to the needs of the evacuees.
The provincial government had also delivered relief supplies to Arakan for distribution to the 35 families now housed in temporary relief sites at the town proper.
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