QUETTA, June 7: At least nine people have died and over three dozen fainted in different areas of Sibi and Nasirabad districts during the last three days in a withering heatwave that has engulfed the region for the last couple of weeks, hospital sources said on Saturday.

“The cause of the death was sunstroke,” they said.

Official sources said maximum temperature in Sibi reached 54.9 degree Celsius which brought all activities to a halt.