Hyderabad: Over 700 people have died due to sun-stroke in southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Temperatures have been hovering around 45 degrees Celsius in both the states for the last few days.
A bulletin from the MeT department said Ramagundam, Nalgonda and Khammam recorded 45 degrees Celsius during the past 24 hours as per the observations recorded at 8.30 am on Monday.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had directed the state administration to open camps for providing drinking water and butter milk as a measure of protection against the severe heat conditions.
He also appealed to the general public to avoid sun from 11 am to 4.30 pm, if possible.
Meanwhile, a weather department official said in Visakhapatnam that the heatwave conditions will prevail for another day and thundershowers are likely to occur in the north-coastal Andhra Pradesh by Tuesday.