Pakistan city readies graves, hospitals, in case heat wave hits again


  • World
  • Friday, 20 May 2016

Shahid Balouch, a gravedigger, poses for a photograph in a mass grave in the cemetary, as preparations are made in case of another heatwave in Karachi, Pakistan May 13, 2016. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani grave digger Shahid Baloch is taking no chances.

Like many people in the port city of Karachi, he was caught out by the severity of last summer's heat wave which killed more than 1,300 people, and has hired a digger to excavate three elongated trenches big enough for 300 bodies.

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