South Africa: Cold a killer for homeless
June 27, 2009
Filed under Africa, South Africa
Tags: global cooling, climate change, global warming, cold, Global Freeze, weather, climate, chilly, temperature, winter, global freezing, temperatures, cold weather, cold weather deaths, Africa, brrr, South Africa, Eastern Cape, spate of cold weather
Cold a killer for homeless
IOL, June 26 2009 at 07:48PM
A recent spate of cold weather is to blame for the deaths on Friday of two people in the Eastern Cape, police said.
Both men are believed to be vagrants who were sleeping outside where they died in the cold, Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg.
The first man, in his 60s, was found at 4am by a gardener in Govan Mbeki Municipality. He had gone to sleep on the steps of a building in the town.
The second man, in his 50s, was found at 10am in a construction site where he had sought shelter. – Sapa
