INDEPENDENT (UK) – India’s on-going heat wave, which set a new record for the country’s highest-ever recorded temperature last week, is melting tarmac on the roads of some of India’s busiest cities.
Residents in the city of Valsad, Gujarat, had to fight melting tar while crossing the road as temperatures rose to 36C.
Video footage from NDTV shows people becoming trapped on a melting road surface as their shoes stick in the softening tarmac.
Abandoned sandals are seen strewn across the sticky roadway and a woman falls over as she attempts to carry a heavy bag over the road.
Temperatures in parts of western India exceeded 50C on Friday. The record – a scorching 51C – was set in the city of Phalodi, in the western state of Rajasthan. The previous high was 50.6C in 1956 in the city of Alwar, also in Rajasthan.
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