Coldest Afghan winter in years claiming life and limb

Herat, Afghanistan – Several men lay side by side in hospital beds, the stubs of their amputated arms and legs wrapped in fresh bandages. They are not victims of war or land mines, but of frostbite. It's the coldest this impoverished, war-ravaged nation has been in at least a decade – that's as far back as Afghanistan's weather records go – and so far, the harsh weather has been blamed for more than 650 deaths.

[this isn't climate; it's weather - remember that when we've a warm year and the nets go nuts]

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