Blistering heatwave kills seven in Yemen

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Perilous Times and Global Warming

Blistering heatwave kills seven in Yemen*

ADEN, Yemen, June 19 (AFP) Jun 19, 2007

Searing heat has killed seven people in Yemen's southern port of Aden,
with temperatures climbing as high as 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees
Fahrenheit), a health source told AFP on Tuesday.

"Most of them were elderly and some of them had heart conditions," the
source said.

Pakistan declared an emergency in state-run hospitals on June 11 as the
death toll from a heatwave there rose to 47.

Aden, on the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean, was once one of the main
ports in the Arab world and was also the capital of the former south
Yemen until it merged with the north in 1990.