ISLAMABAD, June 23: With the country continuing to sizzle under an intense heatwave, the mercury shot up to 51 degrees Celsius in Jacobabad and to 50 in the Punjab towns of Risalpur, Attock and Sargodha.
Although Jacobabad had recorded its hottest day of the season on Wednesday with the maximum temperature at 52 degrees Celsius, the situation turned worse on Wednesday with severe hot winds blowing almost the whole day.
Two people died of sunstroke in Ghotki on Thursday and hundreds of people were brought to hospital in Sindh interior and the plains of Punjab. People mostly stayed indoors during the day and there was little relief in the evening.
According to met office, the temperature recorded in various towns and cities was as follows: Mianwali 49, Sibbi 48, Rawalpindi, Jhelum and Sialkot 47, Islamabad and Lahore 46, Peshawar and D.I.Khan 47, Muzaffarabad, Multan, Faisalabad, Sialkot Gujranwala and Bahawalpur 46, Hyderabad and Quetta 40, Sukkur 44, Nawabshah 42, Sibi 48, Ziarat 30, Kalat 38, Gwadar 36, Thatta 37, Gilgit 41, Skardu 34 and Chitral 43.
Most parts of the country will experience another two days of hot weather. Some rain and duststorm have been forecast in isolated areas of lower Sindh by Friday evening.
