Bhubaneswar, At least eight people have died of suspected sun stroke in India's eastern state of Odisha in the last three days, the government said on Monday, with the national weather department predicting more hot weather in parts of the state this week. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) declares a heat wave when the temperature of a region is 4.5 degrees Celsius (40.1°F) to 6.4 C higher than normal. Odisha's capital city of Bhubaneswar recorded a maximum temperature of 39 C on Monday. A total of 159 suspected sun stroke deaths have been reported in Odisha this summer, the state emergency operation centre said on Monday, adding that sun stroke was confirmed as the cause of death in 41 cases. "Seventy-three cases (of suspected sun stroke) are under inquiry at district level," the centre's statement said. India and several other parts of Asia have experienced an unusually hot summer - a trend scientists say has been worsened by human-driven climate change - and the weather department has forecast heat wave conditions will continue in parts of north and east India in the coming days. The country saw nearly 25,000 cases and 56 fatalities from suspected heat stroke from March to May, local media reported last week. The capital Delhi recorded its highest ever temperature at 49.9 C in some places earlier this month, and it has been grappling with a water shortage as maximum temperatures continue to hover around 44 C. The early arrival of monsoon rains, which hit southern Kerala state on May 30 and have advanced into the western state of Maharashtra after covering southern India, however, may bring some relief by the end of the month, the weather department has said. Source: Bahrain News Agency
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