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| Situation Update No. 7 Ref.no.: CW-20100118-24594-CHN
Situation Update No. 7
On 2010-01-27 at 08:43:14 [UTC]
Event: Cold Wave
Location: China Province of Xinjiang Xinjiang-wide
Number of Deads: 27 person(s)
Number of Injured: 14 person(s)
Number of Missing: 7 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 161856 person(s)
Situation: An avalanche in western China's snowbound Xinjiang region has killed 14 people, state media reports, bringing the reported death toll from a fierce cold snap to at least 27. The avalanche occurred on Tuesday in Yili prefecture, an area along the border with Kazakhstan that is populated by large numbers of ethnic Kazakhs, China Radio International said today. It gave no other details. The news comes after the nation's media earlier this week reported 13 people had died in Xinjiang from the worst snowstorms in six decades. Twelve of those had perished in avalanches. China has endured an unusually harsh winter, reaching its height since January 1 with heavy snow across vast parts of the country's north and west, but Xinjiang has suffered the hardest from a series of Siberian blizzards. Thousands have been left homeless after the heavy snows led houses to collapse while thousands of livestock have died from exposure or starvation after grazing fields were buried in snow, reports have said. |  | | | |
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