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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/india-cold-snap-claims-more-lives.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Near-freezing temperatures have killed dozens of homeless people across northern India (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-india-cold-snap-claims-more-lives.jpg" alt="Near-freezing temperatures have killed dozens of homeless people across northern India (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Near-freezing temperatures have killed more than two dozen people in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute blankets and medicine to the poor, officials say.</p>
<p>In worst-hit Uttar Pradesh state, at least 22 people &#8211; many of them homeless &#8211; died over the past three days, pushing the death toll from two weeks of cold weather to 63, Ram Mohan Srivastav, a top government official, said.</p>
<p>Uttar Pradesh is one of India&#8217;s poorest states and nearly a fifth of its 180 million people are homeless, according to state government statistics.</p>
<p>At least six people died from freezing temperatures in the past two days in neighbouring Jharkhand state, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.</p>
<p>The temperature dipped below 3C (37F) in parts of Uttar Pradesh this week, with the mercury plunging to 0.6C (33F) in Agra, the city where the Taj Mahal is located.</p>
<p>State authorities have ordered all schools to close until the weather improves, Mr Srivastav said.</p>
<p>Welfare department workers distributed blankets and medicine to the poor and homeless in Uttar Pradesh this week.</p>
<p>In the state capital, Lucknow, the government arranged all-night bonfires at major road crossings and near railway stations.</p>
<p>All flights to and from Lucknow were cancelled after dense fog shrouded the city&#8217;s airport on Friday. Almost all long-distance trains were running four to five hours late due to the fog, Mr Srivastav said.</p>
<p>In New Delhi, at least 10 homeless people have died from cold weather over the past two weeks despite a drive by police and welfare officials to persuade people living on the streets to sleep in 80 city-run shelters.</p>
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