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Heat wave, power cuts, riots in India

2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SAPA: Thousands of people enraged by power cuts during an extreme heat wave rioted across northern India, setting electricity substations on fire and taking power company officials hostage, officials said Saturday. The impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh has never had enough power for its 200 million people - about the population of Brazil - and many receive only a few hours a day under normal conditions, while 63 percent of homes have no access to electricity at all. But recent temperatures that...

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