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In this photograph dated 24 May 2015, an Indian man pours water on his face during a hot summer day in the Indian city of Hyderabad
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As of 27 May 2015, more than 1,100 people have died from health conditions related to the heatwave that is sweeping across India and leaving bodies in its wake. The death toll from heatwave is more than 50 times the number of the Malaysia floods from 2014.
In the 2014–15 floods, described as the worst floods in decades, that hit Malaysia from 15 December 2014 to 3 January 2015, 21 people were killed while more than 200,000 people were affected.
In this photograph dated 23 April, on a hot summer day a man cools off his child using a pipe that supplies water to trains at a railway station in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Temperatures in parts of India have soared this week to 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
Image via Jitendra Prakash/Reuters
Heatwave conditions have been prevailing in the two worst-affected southern Indian states since mid-April, but most of the deaths have happened in the past week, the BBC reported in its 26 May report
Daytime highs have been soaring near the 50C mark, prompting authorities to advise residents to stay indoors and putting hospitals on high alert for heat exhausted patients. The soaring temperatures have caused roadways to literally melt in the capital of India.
This is what a zebra crossing near Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital looked like on Monday, 25 May.
Image via Sanjeev Verma/ HT photo
This SAYS writer stays in Delhi.
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In this photograph dated 26 May, an Indian worker throws water outside a restaurant in the Indian city of Amritsar in an attempt to keep the pavement cool on a hot day
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