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Cold wave toll nears 100
New Delhi, Jan 10 : Mercury today shot up in plains in North India while bone-chilling cold buffeted higher hills as five more people, including a foreigner, perished in the chill taking the toll in the region this winter close to 100.
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Cold wave loosened its grip in Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh as temperatures hovered above normal in the plains providing respite to denizens.
However, five more people, including a Dutch, succumbed to the cold since last evening as the number of fatalities in the region neared 100.
Four of them died in Uttar Pradesh where the minimum touched much kinder 15.6 degree celsius in Jhani, 14.6 in Varanasi, 13.4 in Kanpur, 12.8 in Lucknow, 12.5 in Gorakhpur, 11.5 in Bareilly and 11 in Taj City Agra.
Piercing cold gripping higher peaks in Uttarakhand claimed the life a Dutch national in Gangotri region which donned a white mantle of snow.
Body of 40-year-old Gregory Arni Ramdin was found this morning in a forest department cottage and the Dutch embassy in New Delhi had been informed, official sources in Dehradun said. |
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