Posted on 06/25/2015 9:32:04 AM PDT by aimhigh
The death toll from the worst heat wave to hit Karachi for nearly 35 years surpassed 1,000 people, as experts warned of another similar heatwave in the metropolis in the coming week.
The heat wave in the city of 20 million people coincided with severe electricity cuts, leaving many without fans, water or light, and the beginning of the holy month of Ramazan, when many Muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours.
Some shops have refused to sell ice or water during the day, citing religious laws that mean they can be fined. It is also illegal to eat or drink in public from dawn to dusk.
Air conditioning units at the morgue have stopped working. The provincial government had done little except try to blame others, he said.
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What horrible conditions—no water even at home? And they can’t even purchase ice or water, even just to cool down?
Can’t an Imam (or whatever) issue some sort of special dispensation under the circumstances?
The pope should make them martyrs as they died due to lack of air conditioning
Muslim countries are Hell’s foyer. Those folks are just getting a preview of things to come.
Oh.
Allahu Fubar.
Only 1000, way too few to make the world safer from the cult of death. ISIS has killed more than that in a single week.
“Muslim countries are Hell’s foyer. Those folks are just getting a preview of things to come.”
Maybe a little “payback” for the Paki’s in Rotherham, England turning schoolgirls into prostitutes. If that whole part of the world ceased to exist tomorrow, we would all be much better off!
1,000 down 23,499,000 more to go.
Shame on you.
I KNEW GLOBAL WARMING was good for SOMETHING!!!
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