LONDON: Ten people have died among 32 infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia since June in a series of clusters of the viral disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. The latest cases, recorded between June 1 and Sept 16, bring the global total of laboratory-confirmed MERS cases to 2,254, with 800 deaths, the United Nations agency said in a "disease outbreak" statement on its website. Among the 32 latest Saudi cases, 12 were part of "five distinct clusters", the WHO said. Four of these were within households or families, and the fifth was in a hospital in Buraidah. - Reuters