Dengue claims four lives in a day in Karachi.

KARACHI -- Three women and a man died of dengue fever on Tuesday as the death toll owing to the viral disease rose to 25 across Sindh this year, setting off alarm bells in the quarters concerned, as the province has so far registered more than 8,700 dengue cases this year, officials and sources said.

The fresh deaths were reported in private hospitals where 82-year-old resident of DHA Sarfaraz Hussain, 35-year-old Afshan Asif of Gulberg, 57-year-old Gulnar Begum of Gulbahar and Saeeda Khatoon, 50, of North Karachi died during treatment.

'With the fresh numbers, the total count of deaths due to dengue fever stands at 25 this year,' said a source citing recently-compiled data of the provincial authorities. 'A total of 8,707 cases have been registered this year and a large...