At least five people died and forty were hospitalized in southern India due to high temperatures, during an Indian Air Force show that attracted more than a million spectators – after a call from the authorities to break an attendance record – reported the Government.
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The Minister of Health and Family Welfare of the state of Tamil Nadu, Ma Subramanian, confirmed this Monday in a press conference the death of five people during the event “because of the high temperatures”, defending themselves against accusations from the regional opposition, who blame the Government for poorly managing the event.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) had widely publicized its air show, which took place on a beach in the city of Chennai on Sunday, with the aim to break the attendance record to an act of this nature.
This caused a massive influx, with 1.2 million viewers, according to the Indian Express media, which reported that the exits collapsed at the end of the event, when the vast majority of attendees tried to leave the venue at the same time.
“We suffocate, We couldn’t move at all,” one of the attendees, Abhasree, who was trapped in said congestion at the end of the show, told the media.
The event ended at 1:00 p.m. local time (7:30 GMT on Sunday), when Chennai recorded a temperature close to 36 degrees.
Images of the event show a huge crowd of people on the beach, most of them protected by umbrellas or any clothing on their heads. to protect them from the intense sun.
The opposition parties in Tamil Nadu hold the Government responsible for its mismanagement of the event, criticizing that it did not deploy the necessary measures to control an influx that they sensed would exceed 100,000 people.
“People had to walk between 5 and 10 km, there were no water dispensers, the ambulance could not reach the place due to poor management”criticized this Monday the leader of the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Kovai Sathyan, demanding the resignation of the regional Health Minister.
Deaths attributed to heat are common in India, especially between the months of March and May, when temperatures exceed 50 degrees in some parts of the country.
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