Tuesday, January 31, 2012

48 Dead in Cold Front


Temperatures dipped to minus 23 C this week in the Capital city of Kiev, Ukraine, causing officials to begin opening shelters, offering warm tea, and searching abandoned buildings for the homeless. 18 people have died from freezing to death in the streets, while 30 have died from hypothermia and nearly 500 have reported to hospitals and clinics with frostbite. There have been reports of deaths from Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, and officials expect the cold to continue...

Check out the story here....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46200659/ns/weather/#.TygIxGDZiKo

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