The body of an elderly man was found under a tree near Telhara city in Akola district of Maharashtra Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The man, aged around 60 years, is suspected to have died of heat stroke, police said.
"The body of the yet-to-be-identified man was recovered from under a tree on Telhara-Hiverkhed road around 1 pm," inspector Vikas Deore of Telhara police station said.
The body was sent to Telhara government hospital for post-mortem, he said, adding that he is suspected to have died of a heat stroke.
Akola district in Vidarbha region has been reeling under severe heat wave conditions since the beginning of this summer. On April 28, the maximum temperature recorded in the district was 47.2 degrees Celsius and it continues to remain above 45 degrees Celsius.
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