Guwahati: Extreme cold has claimed the lives of two infants at Moran in upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district.
According to health officials two infants, one aged just four months and another one year old, died on Friday due to a severe cold.
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As per reports, the 4-month-old infant, the second son of Sunny and Rajmoni Dhanwar, died while asleep. The child had previously been brought to the clinic for immunization and had been sent home with no major symptoms.
However, poor living conditions, including holes in roofs and inadequate walls and ceilings, are believed to have contributed to the infant’s death. The one-year-old infant also passed away as a result of the extreme cold.
A massive hailstorm that swept through several areas of upper Assam on December 28, damaged the house of the family.
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However, due to financial problems the family failed to repair their house and as a result, a sudden fall in temperature severely affected them, said locals.
Locals have blamed the Assam government for the tragic incident. “Two poor children have not lost their lives, had the government extended support to the poor family to repair their house,” said a local.
The administration also did not provide any financial assistance to the family to repair the damaged house.
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Furthermore, there have been multiple deaths reported in the area due to the cold weather conditions.
A woman was found dead at platform no 1 of the Lumding railway station on January 6, and witnesses suspected that the cold was the cause of her death.
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Another woman and a young man were found dead at Lumding Railway Junction on January 5, again due to a lack of quilts to protect them from the cold.
On January 1, another young man was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his bedroom in Guwahati. An investigation has been launched by the police to determine the cause of the death.