Temperatures plunge as cold spell leaves 123 dead in Russia
By Agence France-Presse in Moscow and Paris | China Daily | Updated: 2012-12-27 07:12
Lyubov Valiyeva, a member of the "Cryophil" winter swimming club, walks on the bank of the Yenisei River with the temperature at -25 C in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Wednesday. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters |
A bitter cold snap in Russia has claimed 123 lives in the past 10 days, an official said on Tuesday.
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