Subject: Afghanistan’s coldest winter in years claims more than 40 lives Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:44 am
More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan’s coldest winter in years, an Afghan health official said Monday.
The government has recorded 41 deaths from freezing in three provinces — Kabul, Ghor and Badakhshan, said Health Ministry spokesman Ghulam Sakhi Kargar.