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S. Asian cold snap toll hits 416 LUCKNOW, India, Tuesday (AFP) The death toll from a cold snap gripping parts of South Asia climbed to at least 416, officials and press reports said, as authorities scrambled to provide shelter to the homeless. India's death toll from the cold weather over the past three weeks stood at 215, while it jumped to 153 in neighbouring Bangladesh and 48 in Nepal, according to government officials and newspapers. Amrish Srivastav, a state relief department official in Uttar Pradesh, told AFP the situation was "grim" in India's most populous state of 125 million people, where at least 146 people had died. "If this cold persists, we expect more casualties," he said. "We're trying desperately to stop the deaths by providing timely help, but it's not easy in a state as large as Uttar Pradesh to reach out to all the poor and homeless." |
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