Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Cold wave continues to sweep north India, kills 200 people . Lucknow shivers at -0.2 degree Celsius. Extreme Cold in Ukraine Kills 110 People, Closes Schools.



Cold wave continues to throw life out of gear in North India with the minimum temperature dipping to -0.2 degree Celsius in Lucknow on Tuesday.

There was no respite from the cold wave  across north India on Monday as the mercury dipped close to the freezing point at several places in the region and killed 29 more people, mounting the toll from it this season to around 200.

Officials said six people died in Ghazipur, three each in Azamgarh and Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh. Two deaths were reported from Fatehpur, Sultanpur and Chandauli besides one each in Jaunpur and Siddhartnagar in the state that had reported the maximum cold-related deaths - 175 - this season.

Three more people died in Amritsar that recorded a low of 1.8 degree C, while Patiala and Ludhiana shivered at 2.4 and 2.7. The cold snap has killed 13 people in Punjab and eight in Haryana so far.

Officials said four people died of cold in Uttarakhand's Haridwar, where the minimum temperature touched one degree C, and two in Rajasthan's Bundi.

Agra was the coldest place in Uttar Pradesh with a low of just 0.6 degree above the freezing point. Muzaffarnagar shivered with a minimum temperature of 0.7 degree C, seven notches below normal.

The dipping mercury forced the state government to order closure of all schools up to class VIII till January 12.

Narnaul in Haryana was the coldest place in the state with the mercury plunging three degrees below freezing point, the lowest in 15 years. Hisar shivered at a low of 0.8 degree C. The mercury in the town had slipped to a low of minus 1.1 degree C early on Sunday.
Meanwhile Siberian shivering weather conditions across Ukraine left 110 people dead and forced the government to shut schools across the country as temperatures plunged below minus 26 degrees Celsius,

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