"Felt Like It Was Raining Fire": Residents Of Mungeshpur, India's 'Hottest' Place

The residents told NDTV that several people, including children, had to be hospitalised because of heatstroke.

The nondescript area of Mungeshpur in northwest Delhi was thrust into the limelight on Wednesday, when the temperature recorded by an India Meteorological Department weather station in the area was a staggering 52.9 degrees Celsius, making it a record not just for the national capital, but also for all of India.

While the IMD has said it is checking the temperature sensor in the observatory, especially since it was an outlier compared to the other weather stations in Delhi, people in Mungeshpur said that, irrespective of the final figure, Wednesday was indeed the hottest it has ever been in the area. 

The residents told NDTV that several people, including children, had to be hospitalised because of heatstroke and other heat-related issues. What made things worse, they said, was the fact that a large part of the area did not have electricity all of Wednesday night after a transformer exploded at 11 pm.