June 06, 2015
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Lal Shahbaz urs: Sehwan heat wave kills 10 pilgrims
INP
SEHWAN SHARIF – At least 10 pilgrims died of suffocation due to severe weather and shortage of drinking waters during Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Urs in Sindh on Saturday.
According to rescue sources, at least seven pilgrims who came in the Urs have died of suffocation due to heat stroke and shortage of drinking water while three pilgrims drowned while taking bath in the Bagh Lal river. The temperature recorded 44 degree centigrade.
All the ten people who died hailed from Moro. The 763rd Urs of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar started on Saturday. Thousands of devotees, mostly from Sindh and Punjab, thronged the shrine on the first day. A persistent heat wave in the region also left more than 2000 people dead in various states of India last month.
Pakistan People party co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari took notice of the shortage of water in the shrine and directed the deputy commissioner Dadu to provide free mineral water bottles to the pilgrims.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk