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India's official call deadly chill - ''national calamity''
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Weekend News Today
Lead: Faith
Source: earthweek.com
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Mon Feb 3,2003 -- Officials in India declared the deadly ongoing cold snap a “national calamity.” The chill, which has plagued the region for a month, is reportedly the most bitter to hit the country in a century. The edict came as the death toll in Southeast Asia rose to more than 2,250 in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. While temperatures have remained above freezing in most locations, residents in the normally temperate region are ill prepared to cope with the severe conditions. India's eastern Bihar state began distributing 2 million blankets and firewood to hundreds of thousands of homeless people to help protect them from the chill.
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