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Relatives mourn the death of a heatwave victim at the EDHI morgue in Karachi. AFP file
Karachi - Nearly two-thirds of the victims of a killer heatwave that swept southern Pakistan last week were homeless people, a minister said on Monday, as the death toll in Karachi reached over 1,200.
The city of 20 million inhabitants is a sprawling metropolis with few green areas and has scant facilities for coping with intensely hot weather.
Those living on the city's streets have little access to shelter or safe drinking water, making them particularly vulnerable to the scorching temperatures.
"About 60 to 65 per cent of the heatstroke victims were beggars and heroin addicts, street people," Jam Mehtab Dahar, the provincial health minister told AFP.
Zafar Ejaz, a senior health official, said the death toll as of Monday stood at 1,229 across the city's hospitals.
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