The blazing summer sun and heatwave left people scrambling for shelter in many parts of Kerala. The intense heat also claimed two lives in the State on Sunday with authorities confirming the death of a 90-year-old woman due to sunstroke at Elappully in Palakkad and another one in Kannur.
Meanwhile, Palakkad recorded the highest temperature of 41.6° C on Sunday in the manual observatory, around 5.3° C higher than the normal temperature.