900 reported dead in two-week India heat wave

SUNSTROKE and dehydration claimed another 160 lives in a southern Indian state, raising the death toll from a two-week heat wave to nearly 900, a relief official said.

Temperatures rose as high as 118.2 degrees Fahrenheit and meteorologists promised no relief from the heat wave for another two days in Andhra Pradesh state, the state's chief relief official, D.C. Roshaiah, said on Saturday.

Last year, a heat wave reached 122F and killed more than 1,000 people in the state, most of them elderly.