<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room (HEOC & CR) of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) confirmed the deaths.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The DGHS reported the fatalities from the information it received at its control room till Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides, one person died and three people suffered injuries due to heatstroke across the country in the past 24 hours till Monday morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The DGHS started recording heatstroke related deaths from April 22.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A mild to very severe heat wave swept through the country for about a month staring from first week of April. Later the temperature started to fall across the country after rains in the first week of the current month.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The heat wave also forced the government to shut the primary and secondary schools, colleges and madrashas till May 2. According to UNB reports </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>