(Bloomberg) -- A heatwave in India that’s killed at least 1,360people could claim more lives as high temperatures are forecast foranother couple of days.
|“The toll could mount,” said Y.K. Reddy, head of themeteorological center in Hyderabad, the capital of the southernIndian state of Telangana.
|Many of the deaths have been in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh astemperatures nudged 50 degrees Centigrade (122 degrees Fahrenheit).The June-September monsoon in the nation of 1.2 billion peopletypically brings relief from the heat.
|The monsoon is seen below normal for a second year, Science andTechnology and Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan told reporterson April 22.
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