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Sun Jun 2, 2024, 05:05 AM Jun 2024

Heatstroke kills 33 polling staff in a state on last day of India election

Heatstroke kills 33 polling staff in a state on last day of India election

While several people have died during the intense heatwave, dozens dying in one day marks an especially grim toll.



Election officers rest beneath a parked bus on a hot summer day before proceeding to their allotted polling stations in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh [File: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP]

2 Jun 2024

At least 33 Indian polling staff died on the last day of voting from heatstroke in just one state, says a top election official, after scorching temperatures gripped swaths of the country.

Navdeep Rinwa, chief electoral officer for the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where voting in the seventh and final stage of the election ended on Saturday, said 33 polling personnel died due to the heat.

The figure included security guards and sanitation staff.

“A monetary compensation of 1.5 million rupees [$18,000] will be provided to the families of the deceased,” Rinwa told reporters on Sunday.

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Heatstroke kills 33 polling staff in a state on last day of India election (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2024 OP
Better burn more coal (for air conditioning) :sarcasm: speak easy Jun 2024 #1
If 33 is just the number of polling staff killed by the heat... Think. Again. Jun 2024 #2

Think. Again.

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2. If 33 is just the number of polling staff killed by the heat...
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 05:30 AM
Jun 2024

...I wonder how many others also died who didn't have that particular job...

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