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Pakistan city readies graves, hospitals, in case heat wave hits again
2016-05-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: KARACHI Pakistani grave digger Shahid Baloch is taking no chances. Like many people in the port city of Karachi, he was caught out by the severity of last summer's heat wave which killed more than 1,300 people, and has hired a digger to excavate three elongated trenches big enough for 300 bodies. "Thanks to God, we are better prepared this year," said Baloch, 28, who works with three brothers at the vast Karachi cemetery run by the charitable organisation Edhi Foundation. When the heat wave...
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