Weather kills more than 900
From Times Wire Reports
Bitter cold, snowstorms and avalanches have killed 926 people in Afghanistan as the country suffers one of the most brutal winters in decades.
More than 316,000 cattle have died and 833 houses have been destroyed, said Ahmad Shikeb Amraz, spokesman for the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Commission.
Amraz said that of the 926 deaths nationwide, 462 had been in Herat province in western Afghanistan.
Dozens of people in Herat have had their hands or feet amputated because of frostbite.
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