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2010-01-24 19:49:37 - Cold Wave - Romania EDIS CODE: CW-20100124-24683-ROU
Date & Time: 2010-01-24 19:49:37 [UTC]
Area: Romania, , Statewide, Number of death person(s): 4
Damage level: Moderate (Level 2)
Not confirmed information! Description: A cold snap in Romania has left four more people dead as temperatures are expected to plunge to minus 31 degrees Celsius (minus 24 Fahrenheit), Prime Minister Emil Boc said Sunday. "Unfortunately, for the last 24 hours, we have registered four deaths", in the capital and in the Bistrita Nasaud area in the north, in Satu-Mare in the northwest and Prahova in the south, Boc said in a videoconference with local government officials. In Bucharest, a 60-year-old homeless man was found dead in the street on Sunday, an ambulance official said. He was the second cold victim in the capital, where another homeless man died Saturday. In Bistrita Nasaud, a 58-year-old man was found dead near a railway station, from where he was to take the train home. Five other people died of exposure on Friday and Sunday in Romania, where ambulance services and police conduct joint patrols to identify homeless people and lead them to shelters. According to a local help group, about 15,000 homeless people live in the country, 5,000 of them in Bucharest.
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