Official: A Hundred Dead of Cold in Bitter Moscow Winter

Published January 4th, 2001 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Hypothermia claimed two more victims in Moscow overnight, bringing the death toll from cold weather in Russia's capital to 100 since October, emergency medical services told Interfax on Thursday. 

Homeless people in Moscow regularly succumb to the sub-zero conditions that reign in the city every winter, especially as there is virtually no organization designed to help them -- MOSCOW (AFP) 

 

 

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