South Asia heatwave shatters April records as grid and water systems strain from Karachi to Kolkata
A punishing pre-monsoon heatwave pushed temperatures past 47 degrees Celsius across a 2,000-kilometer arc of South Asia on Tuesday, shattering April records in more than two dozen cities and overwhelming hospitals, power grids and municipal water systems from Sindh through the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
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