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Cold toll tops 300 in India

NEW DELHI: A savage cold wave gripping India has claimed 317 lives and paralysed road, rail and air traffic across many cities in this tropical subcontinient, report said on Monday.

The Press Trust of India reported 24 more deaths in the past two days in Uttar Pradesh, taking the northern Indian state's death toll from the biting cold and related diseases to the total of 128.-AFP