Nearly 50 dead in India cold snap: report

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A Kashmiri pedestrian walks on the frozen surface of Dal Lake in Srinagar, 03 January 2008. The Kashmir valley awoke to the coldest day of the season in more than two decades with the minimum temperature dipping to minus 7.5 degrees Celsius. Major parts of Dal Lake and hundreds of other ponds, taps, water motors and drains were frozen. At least 47 people have died because of a biting cold wave sweeping northern India over the last two weeks, media reports said.The northern Uttar Pradesh state was worst hit, with 38 people freezing to death since the start of the chill in the last week of December, the Press Trust of India reported. New Delhi recorded the season's lowest temperature of 1.9 degrees Celsius (35.42 degrees Fahrenheit) 02 January. Photo courtesy AFP.

by Staff Writers
Lucknow, India (AFP) Jan 3, 2008
At least 47 people have died because of a biting cold wave sweeping northern India over the last two weeks, media reports said Thursday.

The northern Uttar Pradesh state was worst hit, with 38 people freezing to death since the start of the chill in the last week of December, the Press Trust of India reported.

New Delhi recorded the season's lowest temperature of 1.9 degrees Celsius (35.42 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday.

Officials in Uttar Pradesh have been asked to distribute blankets and light bonfires in public places.

The government and charities in New Delhi have set up more shelters for the homeless.

Each year scores of homeless people die in India because of exposure to extreme weather conditions.

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