INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KHAJURA, DECEMBER 29Increasing cold since three days has crippled life in the Western
Tarai including Banke district.
Chilling cold affects normal life in Terai districts
Cold wave felt in western Tarai
As a result, people's mobility and traffics have gone down while patients with asthma, pneumonia, common cold and fever have
increased.
The weather is dense foggy since today morning
"We are restricted inside house due to cold," said Ram Suhaban Yadav of Nepalgunj.Senior citizens, children, daily wagers and poor people
have been particularly affected due to cold
Daily wagers are finding it difficult to go for work as a result of cold, said Ramdin Godiya of Duduwa Rural Municipality in Banke
district."We are left high and dry to support for my family without money
We do not have enough food to eat and clothing to warm ourselves
We are keeping ourselves by burning firewood," he said.
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