Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when temperatures on Earth reach record highs
BENI MELLAL, Morocco (AP) - In the relentless heat of Morocco's Middle Atlas, people slept on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour also needed shelter, but she waited outside a hospital for her diabetic cousin, who lay in a room without air conditioning.
On Wednesday, 21 people died in the heat at Beni Mellal's main hospital, where temperatures reached 48.3 degrees (118.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in an area of 575,000 people, most of whom had no air conditioning.
"We have no money and we have no choice," said Ouhbour, a 31-year-old unemployed woman from Kasba Tadla, an even hotter city that some experts say ...