India: 454 people commit suicide due to prolonged extreme heat

According to the latest report, India recorded 454 cases of suicide in the first few months of the year due to prolonged hot weather.

Over the past several months, India has been suffering from extremely harsh hot weather with the heat in many areas always above the threshold of 40 degrees C. In particular, on May 19, the temperature in Phalodi city in the state Rajasthan was also recorded at 51 degrees C, the highest ever recorded in history.

Prolonged hot sun caused dry rice fields, crop losses.

In the face of long-lasting hot weather, which caused the fields to be dry, the crops were lost, tens of thousands of farmers had to abandon their fields and houses to seek jobs. More worrisome, hundreds of people who are too distraught find death to escape and escape the tragic reality.

People struggle with prolonged heat.

According to the latest statistics, in the last four months alone, 454 people committed suicide, increasing the number of suicides in the last 16 months in India to nearly 1,600 people. According to the Indian Express, at least 36 farmers in the Marathwada area have come to death in just one week.

Precious water bottles under extreme weather.

Another shocking report was that there were not enough food and financial resources to cover the family life that many Indian women were forced to sell themselves.

Rama Devi, a single mother in Kadiri, said that because she did not have enough money to cover her life when the harvest failed, she was forced to embark on this path. " There has been no rain for years and I have nothing to do," Devi told News 18.

Devi said that although she knew herself to be despised by the community and her children were also discriminated against by other children, these three children still had to accept because "I have no other choice".