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Since the beginning of the summer season 26 people in Azerbaijan's capital Baku sought medical aid from the Baku City Ambulance and Emergency Station in connection with sunstrokes, and 11 of them were hospitalized, deputy chief doctor of the station, Ogtay Shahmaliyev, said on July 22.

According to Shahmaliyev, since late April 47 Baku residents applied to the station with insect bites, and 27 of them were hospitalized.

High temperature causes attacks by snakes and scorpions in Azerbaijan every year. During this period, 14 people were bitten by snakes, and most of them, 13 people, were hospitalized.

Read more about it in AZERNEWS online newspaper's print edition published on July 26.

Also, in the new edition you can read articles about Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev`s meeting with the medal winners of the 27th World University Summer Games held in Kazan, the opening ceremony of the grand Gabala International Music Festival organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Azerbaijani oil fund's allocation of over $430 mln for Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project, registration of 11 new religious communities in Azerbaijan, an Azerbaijani documentary to be shown at the upcoming Sarajevo film festival, etc.

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