The heat wave in Mexico has claimed 48 lives in the past two months, with nearly half of them are within the last week, reported DPA, quoted by BTA, referring to a message from the Mexican Ministry of Health.
A total of 956 people have received medical treatment for heatstroke, dehydration and sunburn since the country's hot season began in mid-March. The heat wave has been the most common cause of death in Mexico since then, according to DPA.
Currently, temperatures in 27 of the 32 Mexican states are above 40 degrees Celsius. On Thursday, a temperature of 46 degrees was recorded in the northern city of Monclova in the state of Colauila.
Mexico's drought, heatwave and water shortages are so severe that even police blocked traffic in Mexico City in protest.
In recent months, residents of some neighborhoods of the capital have regularly formed human chains to block boulevards demanding that they be provided with water.
In the southern Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, it is so hot that dozens of Mexican howler monkeys are falling dead from trees.