Heat Wave Scorches North India
Blistering heat scorched North India onFriday as mercury soared to 45 degrees Celsius in the Capital and further in several other cities of the region with Allahabad sizzling at a high of 47.2 degrees. It was the hottest day of this season in Delhi as people scorched under an intense heat wave with the mercury expected to go up further on Sunday. Indian swimmers play in Noida, some 20 kms east of New Delhi on May 30, 2014. Indian children play in a pond on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 6, 2014. A monkey drinks water from a tap on a hot afternoon on the outskirts of the Indian city of Bhubaneswar on June 6, 2014. An Indian boy, selling lemon water in an earthen pot, sleeps on the grass at a public park on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 6, 2014. An Indian day laborer quenches his thirst from a roadside tube well at a wholesale market on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi, India