Sizzling heat in March, April claims 30 lives in Thailand

BANGKOK: The searing heat has killed 30 people, so far, in March and April, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said.

Dr Wirarat Manosutthi, the DDC spokesman, said on Wednesday (April 24) that heatstroke appears to be taking far more lives this year than last year. Last year, 37 people succumbed to heatstroke from March to June.