‘THE HEAT TOOK HIM FROM ME’: INDIA’S DEATH TOLL RISES AMID ESCALATING HEAT CRISIS

As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted The morning air was already hot and cloying when Palli Mahalaxmi rose at about… It was May, and in the summer heatwave that had engulfed this corner of southern India, even night-time did not give the villagers respite.

The Guardian reports that as extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted The morning air was already hot and cloying when Palli Mahalaxmi rose at about…

The report adds: It was May, and in the summer heatwave that had engulfed this corner of southern India, even night-time did not give the villagers respite.

A single ceiling fan hung above Mahalaxmi, her husband and her son as they slept in a small windowless room made of thick concrete.

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