19 dead in 24 hours in Ukraine freeze

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Brings this month’s toll 37.
 
Nineteen people have died of exposure in Ukraine in the past 24 hours amid temperatures of minus 20C, the health ministry says.
 
Some 162 people were hospitalized because of hypothermia and frostbite, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
 
Snowstorms accompanying the “cold snap” left nearly 600 villages without electricity last week.
 
Temperatures fell to minus 16C in the centre and south of the country and to minus 23C in eastern Lugansk region.
 
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