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As a cold snap is sweeping through Europe, hundreds of homeless people huddle against the cold. With temperatures down to -30°C (and below), hospitals are being filled up with frost bite and hypothermia patients. Two hundred twenty people have already died as a result of the chill, and others are in serious condition. Many of the dead found in the poorest country were villagers frozen to death on the side of the road or in their unheated houses. The snow continues to fall, with drifts up to two meters in height. Rescue workers struggle through snow to help their patients get to a hospital. In some rural places, the government has sent helicopters in to carry food and medical supplies to the villagers. The snow is still falling, and authorities are warning the people that the “cold could catch people off-guard after a warmer-than-normal winter so far.”
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