New Delhi, Sha'ban 10, 1436, May 28, 2015, SPA -- The death toll from a searing heatwave sweeping large swathes of India crossed 1,400 Thursday with the met department saying there was no immediate end in sight, dpa reported. A total of 1,020 deaths were reported from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh alone where temperatures continued to hover between 45 and 47 degrees Celsius, an official at the state's disaster management control room in the capital Hyderabad said. In neighbouring Telangana state 340 people had died, disaster management unit chief Bhambal Ram Meena said, adding that a bulk of the victims were poor labourers working in the open. There were also reports of 60 deaths in the eastern states of Orissa, West Bengal and a few in New Delhi and its outskirts, broadcaster NDTV reported. --SPA 15:03 LOCAL TIME 12:03 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w