(p. A11) An unusually intense heat wave has swept across northern India in the last four days, with some hospitals in the state of Uttar Pradesh recording a higher-than-usual number of deaths. Doctors there are convinced there’s a link between the punishing temperatures and the deaths of their patients, but officials are investigating what role the dangerous combination of heat and humidity played in the rise in mortality.
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(Note: the online version of the story has the date June 18, 2023, and has the title “Northern India Endures a Heat Wave, and a Wave of Deaths.”)