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The Met department has sounded an alert that the temperature is likely to rise over the next 48 hours and districts might experience heat wave.
Updated : Sep 30, 2015, 04:52 PM IST
Heat wave has killed at least 12 people over the last 48 hours across West Bengal – including three in Kolkata on Saturday.
A 52-year-old taxi driver, Shatrushan Poddar, was found unconscious inside a taxi near Jadavpur. When he was taken to the hospital, he was declared brought dead and the doctors suspect that he died of heat stroke.
A day earlier, two persons from Kolkata – an employee Kolkata Municipal Corporation's treasury department and another a taxi driver from Ballygunge- died because of the near heat wave condition experienced by the city.
While one under-trial died inside the Barrackpore court lock up, several others died in Bankura, Burdwan and Asansol and several other districts.
To further add to the woes of the people, the Met department has sounded an alert that the temperature is likely to rise over the next 48 hours and districts might experience heat wave. The regional office of the Indian Meteorological Department have issued an alert for heat wave condition for Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore districts and near heat wave condition for Kolkata.