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Seven
Afghan refugee children died at a camp near here as a cold wave
swept northwest Pakistan, camp residents and local authorities
said Monday. The victims, aged between five and seven years old,
died Sunday night at the Jalozai camp housing thousands of refugee
families, said an official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The temperature has dropped to a minimum 1 degree Celsius (34
degrees Fahrenheit) in Peshawar and surrounding areas over the
past few days. “The children were probably struck by pneumonia
or some other serious illness and died as the camp does not have
proper medical facilities,” the official said, adding that the
dead were buried in the camp area. Pakistan shelters around two
million Afghan refugees, most living in a chain of camps across
the Northwest Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan. |
