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From: Steve Nelson (steve0707{at}yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 22:53:30 EST

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14 January 2003

An estimated 1,000 people have died in South Asia in
the past month during a cold snap that saw
temperatures stay above freezing but prove too harsh
for the homeless.

Cold weather across northern India, Bangladesh and
Nepal has claimed a daily average of two dozen lives,
mostly the elderly and children living on the streets.

A region that is more accustomed to extreme heat is
running up a winter death toll comparable with that of
Russia, where hundreds have died this winter in a
ferocious cold spell that saw temperatures of minus
37C in Moscow.

Full story:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=368114

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