Doordarshan News News agency reported that the cold in northern India killed at least 26 people. Most of the victims were in Uttar Pradesh.
Every year in winter in India, from low (by the standards of the Indians) temperatures killed dozens of people. Last week the Supreme Court even ordered to provide a safe haven for the night all the Indians to single homeless people, because most freeze homeless and the elderly.
Unusually cold winter in the northern states established the Punjab, Harayana and Uttar Pradesh. Dense fog and a wave of cold air is practically paralyzed life in the north, where in some places the thermometer sank to the level of 2.2 degrees Celsius.
A wave of cold air and came to the capital. In Delhi, the temperature dropped to 5 degrees, which is considered among the Indians during the harsh winter, and fog forced to cancel dozens of flights to the capital airport.
In Bihar at least until December 25, canceled classes in schools and in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, the temperature dropped almost to 0, resulting in many areas is frozen water in pipes.
The current cold-scale disasters exceed the previous year. Then, too, closed schools and canceled flights at airports, but died less than 10 people.
The Source: CP
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