Children in Afghan refugee camps feeling winter's deadly bite

[Ronan Kelly]

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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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Children in Afghan refugee camps feeling winter's deadly bite

PAN, December 29, 2012
13 Afghan children die at Torkham

The death toll increased to 13 on Saturday as another 10 children frozen to death

By Mahbob Shah Mahbob

Another 10 minor Afghan children died of extreme cold at the Torkham border-crossing after their families were stranded due to the closure of the gate by Pakistani authorities, officials said on Saturday.

Three sick children died on Friday when Pakistani guards closed the border in protest against alleged torture of Pakistani truck drivers by Afghan police. The death toll increased to 13 on Saturday as another 10 children frozen to death, said Idrees Momand, first zone border police spokesman in eastern Nangarhar province.

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Pakistan close Torkham border gate, 8 die in cold weather
By SAYED JAWAD - December 29 2012, 8:14 pm

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Sayed Jawad

At least 8 people including children died due to cold weather in Pakistan and Afghanistan border after the Torkham gate was closed by Pakistani security forces.
A spoksman for the Afghan border protection forces Edirs Momand said thousands of people were stuck on the two sides of the border after the gate was closed on Friday.
He said at least three kids died yesterday due to cold weather and lack of proper accomodation. Afghan intelligence officials today announced at least 5 others including four kids died on the other side of the border.
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http://www.khaama.com/pakistan-close-torkham-border-gate-8-die-in-cold-weather-2076


Torkham border reopened after 20 hours
From the Newspaper | 10 hours ago 0


LANDI KOTAL, Dec 29: The Torkham border was reopened on Saturday after remaining closed for almost 20 hours in protest against beating of two Pakistani truck drivers by Afghan police on December 27.

Officials at the border said that regular traffic was allowed to move across the border after Afghan and Pakistani officials agreed to prevent occurrence of such ‘ugly’ incidents in future.

The Pakistani border guards closed the border on Saturday morning after the two truckers complained about severe torture at the hands of Afghan police at Pul-i-Charkhi checkpost near Kabul on December 27.

However, Pakistani border guards allowed the traffic to cross over to Afghanistan and let the stranded Afghans to enter Pakistan at around 5pm.
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http://dawn.com/2012/12/30/torkham-border-reopened-after-20-hours-2/