Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Odisha government has verified that 36 people have died from sunstroke; on Sunday, a woman in the state passed away from what appeared to be heatstroke. The woman, named as Karmi Hembram, 62, of Shyamsundar village, under the Rairangpur Rural police station in the Mayurbhanj district, reportedly went in the afternoon to grow goats. In the afternoon, some people discovered her lifeless beneath a tree in the grazing area.
The villagers notified the police that Karmi had no family. After visiting the village, a team from the Rairangpur Rural Police Station sent the body to the sub-divisional hospital for a post-mortem. An investigation into an unnatural death has been opened by the police. The villagers said that Karmi suffered a sunstroke, but the police insisted that the cause of her death will be determined once they received the post-mortem report.
It should be recalled that the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) stated on June 5 that as of June 4, collectors had documented 149 purported cases of sunstroke deaths. Of these cases, 34 victims’ causes of death have been determined to be sunstrokes. It further stated that two more suspected cases of sunstroke deaths were reported that day, bringing the state’s total number of sunstroke deaths to 36.
