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Death toll in Afghanistan cold snap rises to 166, official says | ||
2023-01-29 | ||
Afghanistan has been frozen by temperatures as low as -33°C (-27°F) since January 10, combined with widespread snowfall, icy gales, and regular electricity outages.
The disaster management ministry said on Saturday the corpse count had risen by 88 over the past week and now stood at 166, based on data from 24 of the nation's 34 provinces. The deaths were caused by floods, fires and leaks from gas heaters that Afghan families use to heat their homes, ministry official Abdul Rahman Zahid said in a video statement. Some 100 homes were destroyed or damaged and nearly 80,000 livestock, a vital commodity for Afghanistan's poor, also died in the cold. | ||
Posted by:Fred |
#2 So, Global Warming didn't save them? Sorry to be so unbelieving. |
Posted by: Jise Elmeang4932 2023-01-29 22:14 |
#1 nasty cold snap in much of Asia last week it hit -63F in Mohe in North China; this was the coldest temp ever recorded in that country Mohe has a population of about 80k |
Posted by: lord garth 2023-01-29 00:08 |