MORE than 40 people have died of sunstroke after temperatures soared in Port Sudan on the Red Sea in recent days, a Sudanese press report said Tuesday. The independent Akhbar Al Youm daily said the port city is experiencing its most intense heat wave in 10 years, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). It quoted Red Sea state health minister Mohamed al-Hassan Abdel Hafiz as saying more than 70 people had suffered from sunstroke, of whom more than 40 had died. He said his ministry had prepared special air-conditioned wards in hospitals for treatment of the sunstroke victims. – AFP