SUDAN’S health ministry has sent an emergency medical team to the city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea after around 40 people died of sunstroke there during a heatwave. Health minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said in a statement that 38 people, most of them elderly, had died from the heat out of a total 106 people so far stricken by sunstroke in the baking conditions. Press reports said Tuesday that over 40 people had died. 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. The health ministry has prepared special air-conditioned wards in hospitals for treatment of the sunstroke victims. – AFP