BHOPAL: The unprecedented cold that has gripped the state for a month seems to have claimed two lives in Bhopal.
Two homeless men were found dead on footpaths in Shahjehanabad and Awadhpuri localities on Monday morning.
It’s suspected the cold killed them. These would be the first cold deaths of the season. Police are awaiting the post-mortem reports to ascertain cause of death. Both of them are unidentified. Bhopal’s day and night temperatures have been well below normal for several days, hovering around 7-8 degrees, and made colder by wind chill, especially for those unfortunate to be shelterless.
On Monday, the minimum was 7.6 degrees Celsius, 3 degrees below normal.
Morning walkers in Shahjehanabad were shocked to find a homeless man lying dead on the footpath near Royal Market around 8am. He was aged around 50, say police.
