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Tuesday, January 23, 2001, updated at 17:54(GMT+8)
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Cold Tolls Hit 143 in Moscow

Sixteen persons died of hypothermia caused by severe cold wave in Moscow last week, raising the death toll for this winter season to 143, the city emergency medical care service said Monday in Moscow.

During the week, 92 people suffering from exposure to the cold, 21 frostbite victims and one person hit by a falling icicle were taken to hospitals. Sixteen were killed by the coldest weather in the last decades, the service said.

Jack Frosts hit Russia this winter, caused electricity and heat system blackout in the Far East and the north. Air temperature somewhere in east Russia dropped below minus 70 Celsius degree, an historic record. Hundreds of poor and homeless people have been reportedly killed by the worst chilliness in the last decades across the country.







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Sixteen persons died of hypothermia caused by severe cold wave in Moscow last week, raising the death toll for this winter season to 143, the city emergency medical care service said Monday in Moscow.

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