{"id":4893,"date":"2015-06-22T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2015-06-22T10:10:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:10:55","slug":"over-100-die-of-heatstroke-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/over-100-die-of-heatstroke-in-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 die of heatstroke in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Over-100-die-of-heatstroke-in-Karachi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4894\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Over-100-die-of-heatstroke-in-Karachi.jpg\" alt=\"Over 100 die of heatstroke in Karachi\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>Pakistani officials say more than 100 people have died from heatstroke in the southern port city of Karachi in the last two days.<br \/>\nSeemi Jamali, a spokeswoman for city\u2019s Jinnah Hospital, confirmed the deaths on Monday. She said hundreds more have been admitted to the hospital with heat-related ailments, including fever and dehydration.<br \/>\nKarachi is in the grip of a rare heat wave, with temperatures soaring to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). A collapse of the local power grid over the weekend made matters worse.<br \/>\nMeteorologist Mohammad Hanif says the heat wave is the worst in at least a decade, but that the arrival of monsoon rains in the coming days should bring relief.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/over-100-die-of-heatstroke-in-karachi\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani officials say more than 100 people have died from heatstroke in the southern port city of Karachi in the last two days. Seemi Jamali, a spokeswoman for city\u2019s Jinnah Hospital, confirmed the deaths on Monday. She said hundreds more have been admitted to the hospital with heat-related ailments, including fever and dehydration. Karachi is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4895,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}