Playful, April 7, 2007
Orissa health department Saturday confirmed two people had died in the intense heat wave sweeping the state.
Officials said the two deaths occurred one each in the southwestern district of Kalahandi and the coastal district of Bhadrak.
They said the government had received information of seven deaths from different parts of the state, three of which, reported from Jagatsinghpur district along the coast, were not related to the heat wave. Two reports of death from Nayagarh were being investigated.
Bikash Patnaik, medical officer of the state health control room, said: "After conducting examinations we found that the three deaths reported from Jagatsinghpur were due to some other reasons."
"While the two deaths in Nayagarh are still being examined, we confirm that the two deaths from Kalahandi and Bhadrak are due to sunstroke," Patnaik said.
Heat wave conditions have been prevailing over some parts of the state with Jharsuguda town in western Orissa recording the maximum temperature of 40.6 degrees Celsius Friday. There was no let up in the situation Saturday.
Hirakud and Sambalpur recorded 39.8 and 39.0 degrees, the weather office said.
State capital Bhubaneswar recorded a maximum of 35.6 degrees Saturday.
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