Karunakaran (42) a state government employee from Parasala in the southern suburb of the state capital fainted while working in his paddy field. He was rushed to a local hospital where he was declared dead. The body was later shifted to the state-run Medical College for postmortem. After preliminary examination the doctors suspected it to be a case of sun stroke as there were burn marks on the deceased's shoulders. In Kannur an elderly person named Narayanan suffered sun burns and fell unconscious. He was later declared dead. A third case was reported from Maramon in Pathanamthitta district where a
