久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

Toll in South Asia cold wave tops 230
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-10 15:36

Dense fog blanketed northern India on Tuesday, and civic authorities lit bonfires in some cities to keep people from freezing as the death toll from a cold wave in South Asia rose to more than 230 people, officials said.

Many of the deaths in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan came from exposure or fevers and pneumonia contracted during the cold spell, officials said.

Indian vegetable 
 sellers warm themselves near a bonfire at a marketplace during a cold wave in New Delhi January 9, 2006.
Indian vegetable sellers warm themselves near a bonfire at a marketplace during a cold wave in New Delhi January 9, 2006. Reuters]
"Bonfires are the only solace for us," said Sukhai Ram, 30, a laborer in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. Wrapped in a filthy blanket, he had spent the night with dozens of others huddled around a public bonfire. "Without the fires, we will die."

Bangladesh recorded the highest death toll overnight, with 14 people dying in northern districts near the Himalayan foothills where temperatures dipped below the average of 8 degree Celsius (46 degree Fahrenheit).

Nine of those deaths came in the impoverished northern district of Thakurgaon, said relief officials who asked not to be identified because they were not allowed to speak to media.

A homeless Indian migrant worker sits with her child beside a bonfire by a road in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh January 9, 2006.
A homeless Indian migrant worker sits with her child beside a bonfire by a road in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh January 9, 2006.[Reuters]
Five other deaths were reported in the neighboring districts of Dinajpur and Ishwardi, reported the Bhorer Kagoj newspaper.

A total of 40 people have died in Bangladesh since the cold wave began about a week ago.

Most Bangladeshi villagers live in mud-and-thatch huts and are ill-prepared for colder-than-normal weather, and relief workers said they were handing out blankets and warm clothes, as were authorities in stricken parts of neighboring India.

In India's worst-hit Uttar Pradesh state, at least 12 people died overnight, bringing India's death toll to 144, said Surendra Srivastava, a police spokesman in Lucknow, the state capital.

Dilip Kumar, a 32-year-old construction worker in Lucknow, said his family had "arranged for our own bonfire to keep warm at night. If we can't find wood from scavenging, we burn rubber tubes to ward off the biting cold."

In the neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana, at least 15 people have died because of the cold since November, while another eight deaths have been reported over the last two weeks from the state of Jammu-Kashmir.

Schools have been ordered closed across northern India until the cold wave lifts.

In neighboring Pakistan, at least 47 people have reportedly died of cold and pneumonia from a week of frigid weather in the country's remote northern Himalayan region.

The region is outside areas hit by a giant October 8 earthquake that killed at least 87,000 people.

The World Health Organization last week reported 18 cold-related deaths in the quake zone over the previous six weeks.

Anecdotal reports suggest many more may have died, although the deaths have not been tallied by authorities, in part because some areas are inaccessible.

In Nepal, meanwhile, at least three people died Sunday from the cold in Janakpur, 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of the capital, Katmandu, said Umesh Pokhrel, a government official. He had no information on how many people have died so far in the Himalayan kingdom.

The cold also left wide swaths of India and Bangladesh shrouded in dense fog, disrupting road, rail and air traffic on Tuesday.

The meteorology departments in India and Bangladesh that the cold spell, worsened by chilly northwesterly winds, would last until the end of the week.



Dressed up for peace
Japan's PM Koizumi leaves for Turkey
Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales visits Beijing
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Catholicism flourishes in Yunnan's Tibetan village

 

   
 

Researcher: China unlikely to sell dollars

 

   
 

8th human case of bird flu reported

 

   
 

Scientists faked two papers but cloned dog

 

   
 

China, Japan to discuss oil dispute

 

   
 

Soros sees chance of recession in 2007

 

   
  Iran removes seals at nuclear research site
   
  Toll in South Asia cold wave tops 230
   
  Bird flu transmission to humans may be frequent: study
   
  Sharon responds to pain stimulation
   
  Five nuclear powers send messages to Iran - US
   
  Scientists faked two papers but cloned dog
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美成人精品三级网站 | 波多野结衣中文视频 | 99久久99久久精品免费看子 | 国产女人在线观看 | 一区二区三区视频 | 国产一级一级 | 国产成人亚洲精品2020 | 久久久精品成人免费看 | 黄色影视频 | 失禁h啪肉尿出来高h男男 | 99j久久精品久久久久久 | 午夜国产精品久久久久 | 午夜国产精品不卡在线观看 | 一级特级aaa毛片 | 天天看片天天爽_免费播放 天天看夜夜 | 久草视频在线播放 | 欧美大片在线观看成人 | 三级国产在线 | 91精品国产综合久久久久久 | 亚洲成人福利网站 | 一区二区精品在线观看 | 欧美一级在线观看 | 三级视频在线 | 97青青草原国产免费观看 | 久草视频中文在线 | 九九久久免费视频 | 欧美久久亚洲精品 | 最新国产美女肝交视频播放 | 久久欧美精品欧美久久欧美 | 免费一级毛片在线播放视频 | 亚洲va在线va天堂va四虎 | 亚洲精品99久久久久中文字幕 | 欧美一级级a在线观看 | 超级乱淫视频aⅴ播放视频 超级碰碰碰在线观看 | 国产精品视频免费播放 | 美女张开双腿让男人桶视频免费 | 亚洲第一激情 | 日本一线一区二区三区免费视频 | 美女视频黄视大全视频免费网址 | 久在草在线 | 成人综合影院 |