Frost kills two people in Polatsk

The frost set in for only a few days but two people died of it in Polatsk, reports the website “Vitsebsk People’s News”. The first man was found at a bus stop at 2 p.m. He was alive when the ambulance arrived but died on the way to hospital. The presumptive diagnosis is supercooling.

The other victim was a homeless man. Policemen found his body in an annex to the summer kitchen of a private house. The man born in 1962 was not dressed in winter clothes and the room he used to sleep in was not heated.