ISLAMABAD: Nine students of a government high school in Batamorai of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Battagram district fainted during the morning assembly on Friday due to high day temperatures.

The school teacher, who did not want to be named, said that at around 8:30am when the morning assembly was about to end, a few students started falling to the ground, leading the teachers to take them to the side and laid them on the floor.

He added that the teachers poured water on the fainted students’ heads, after which they regained consciousness.

The teacher further said the morning assembly was being held “under the open sky in the scorching weather”, which may have caused the incident.

Subsequently, the students were rushed to the Battagram District Headquarters Hospital, from where their parents picked them up after their medical checkups had been performed.

When contacted, the district education officer, Hafiz Muhammad Nawaz confirmed the incident and said the students were in a stable condition now and had left for their homes.

The daily weather forecast released by the PMD today states that temperatures are “likely to remain 46°C above normal in upper and central Punjab, Islamabad, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir”.

The forecast for KP warns citizens, “Very hot and humid weather is expected in most districts of the province, while dust-thunderstorm may occur in Peshawar, Mardan, Bannu, Karak, Laki Marwat, Kohat, DI Khan and surrounding areas in the afternoon.”

According to AccuWeather.com, the morning temprature recorded in Battagram was 39 degrees Celsius while it reached 42 degrees Celsius later in the afternoon.