Children in Afghan refugee camps feeling winter's deadly bite
POSTED: 12/30/2012 12:01:00 AM MSTBy Rod Nordland
The New York Times
Displaced Afghan children from Helmand province wait to receive winter supplies at the Charahi Qambar refugee camp last week on the outskirts of Kabul. (Shah Marai, AFP/Getty Images)
KABUL ? The snow that fell on a refugee camp in Kabul last week left thick powder piled on the sagging roofs of huts and skinny tree branches, turning the squalor into a winter wonderland. The mistake of a toddler named Janan was to play in it.
By nightfall Thursday, Janan, 3, was sick. On Friday, he never woke up.
He became the first known victim to freeze to death this winter in the mud and tarpaulin warrens of Kabul's 44 refugee camps, where more than 100 children died of cold last winter.
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POSTED: 12/30/2012 12:01:00 AM MSTBy Rod Nordland
The New York Times
Displaced Afghan children from Helmand province wait to receive winter supplies at the Charahi Qambar refugee camp last week on the outskirts of Kabul. (Shah Marai, AFP/Getty Images)
KABUL ? The snow that fell on a refugee camp in Kabul last week left thick powder piled on the sagging roofs of huts and skinny tree branches, turning the squalor into a winter wonderland. The mistake of a toddler named Janan was to play in it.
By nightfall Thursday, Janan, 3, was sick. On Friday, he never woke up.
He became the first known victim to freeze to death this winter in the mud and tarpaulin warrens of Kabul's 44 refugee camps, where more than 100 children died of cold last winter.
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