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India is suffocating, Saturday April 30. New Delhi has temperatures above 40 degrees, and the city’s largest landfill has been burning for several days. The heat wave also affected Pakistan, where it caused power cuts.
India is in the grip of a major heat wave on Saturday April 30. In the streets of New Delhi (India), the inhabitants are suffocating. “My body is filled with sweat from the heat. We stay in the shade, we drink lots of water, that’s all we can do“, confides a resident. The weather, dry and hot, caused the fire of a wild dump. The waste has been burning for four days.
The first victims of the heat are the inhabitants of a slum located at the foot of the landfill. “Because of the fire, our windows melted. (…) Many pollutants enter classrooms, where children cannot sit easily“, confides a man. The mercury shows 43 degrees in New Delhi on Saturday April 30, against the usual 37 in April. In Pakistan, temperatures reach 40 degrees, and could reach 50 in the coming days. In Islamabad, the capital , power cuts have worsened the living conditions of millions of inhabitants.