World's 15 hottest places are in India, Pakistan as pre-monsoon heat builds

Of the 15 hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours, eight were in India with the others in neighbouring Pakistan. Churu, a city in the west of the northern state of Rajasthan, recorded the country's highest temperature of 48.9 Celsius. The three-month, pre-monsoon season, which ended on May 31, was the second driest in the last 65 years.

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