Japan heatwave kills two, hundreds taken to hospital | Inquirer News

Japan heatwave kills two, hundreds taken to hospital

/ 04:34 PM June 01, 2014

A woman buries her son in the sand on a beach near Tokyo, Saturday, May 31, 2014. AP

TOKYO — Two people have been killed and hundreds treated in hospital after a weekend heatwave swept over Japan, officials and reports said Sunday.

A 74-year-old women collapsed while working in a greenhouse in the eastern prefecture of Chiba on Saturday and was later pronounced dead.

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In Ibaraki, also in the east of the country, a 61-year-old was found collapsed in her garden and died.

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On Sunday, a 76-year-old man was taken to hospital unconscious in Sera, in the western prefecture of Hiroshima, after collapsing near a river bank.

“He is suspected of having a heatstroke,” a local ambulance worker told AFP by telephone.

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The official said there were unconfirmed reports that the man had been working in rice paddies before collapsing.

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More than 300 people were treated at hospital on Saturday alone, the public broadcaster said as mercury rose past 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in many towns across the nation.

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The temperature reached 33 degrees C (91F) in central Tokyo by mid-afternoon Sunday with over 36 degrees C (97 F) recorded in Tatebayashi, north of the capital.

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