More than 500 people have died in India from a days-long heatwave that has seen temperatures nudging 50 degrees Celsius, officials say.
Officials warned the toll was likely to rise, with figures still being collected in some parts of the hard-hit Telangana state in the south of the country, and with no end in sight to the searing conditions.
Large parts of India, including national capital New Delhi, have endured days of sweltering heat, prompting fears of power cuts.
Most of the 539 recorded deaths have been of construction workers, the elderly or the homeless in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, officials said, but some deaths have also occurred in Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal.
Andhra Pradesh authorities are urging labourers and others not to work long hours in the heat of the day after 325 people died from the high temperatures there in the last week.