The Associated Press
Published: August 12,2015
A blistering heat wave that has
smothered large swaths of Egypt in recent weeks killed 21 more people,
the Middle Eastern nation's state news agency reported Wednesday, as
this week's death toll from the heat rose to more than 60.
The
official MENA news agency said Wednesday that the latest deaths are from
the previous day, mostly elderly people. It says 581 people are in
hospital for heat exhaustion.
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The
Mideast has been hit by a heat wave since late July. Egyptian summers
are usually hot, but temperatures this week soared to 46 degrees Celsius
(114 degrees Fahrenheit) in the south.
At least 40 people had
died on Sunday and Monday, including detainees and patients in a
psychiatric hospital, according to officials. It wasn't immediately
clear whether Tuesday's death toll includes a German national living in
the southern city of Luxor who died from heatstroke.
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