Three die of scorching heat in Azeri town
BAKU – Three people died on Sunday from scorching heat in Sumgayit, 30 km north of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, police officials said.
One of them, a 64-year-old woman, died of a heart attack on the street. Also, a 60-year-old man died suddenly in the kitchen of the cafe he worked in. A 43-year-old doctor of an ambulance unit passed away after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
37 people have been rushed to the Baku emergency care hospital with sunstrokes in the past three days, bringing the total number of people applying for medical aid with this diagnosis this summer to 107.
Weather forecasters say abnormal heat will prevail in Azerbaijan until Thursday. The temperature is expected to be 38-40 degrees and even 42 degrees in some parts of Baku and the Absheron Peninsula, which encompasses the capital city’s surrounding regions. In some parts of the country’s regions and the Nakhchivan autonomous republic, the temperature is predicted to reach a staggering 44 degrees.
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