Indian
roads become molten seas of tar as deadly heat wave continues
21
May, 2016
India
remains in the grip of a deadly heatwave that this week peaked at
blistering 51 degrees in Rajasthan, a record temperature for the
subcontinent.
Further
south, however, temperatures have been just as extreme – including
in Gujarat where conditions are so bad that bats are falling lifeless
from the trees in the sizzling heat.
Fresh
video from Gujarat's Valsad District shows pedestrians becoming stuck
to the road as they try to cross, with the bitumen melting into
something akin to a sticky fly strip. One fellow can be seen losing
his thong in the scalding journey from kerb to kerb.
May
22, 2016: Indian authorities have began preemptively digging graves
ahead of the nation's impending severe heat ave.
Temperatures
in Gujarat have reportedly topped 48 degrees, and though no official
death toll has been released, some 2400 perished during last year's
onslaught, an unfortunate fact of life in the lead up to the monsoon.
In
Pakistan mass graves are being dug in grim preparation for the wave
of deaths that will inevitably follow the relentless heat.
"Thank
god we are better prepared than last year," grave digger Shahid
Baloch told Channel 4 News.
"God
forbid it happens but we have already dug graves to accommodate 300
bodies."
Rajasthan's
new record of 51 degrees beats out the city's previous top
temperature by just 0.4 degrees, but still falls a good few points
shy of the hottest temperature
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