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Cattle, goats and sheep have frozen to death across the plains, with some herds almost completely wiped out. Called the 'Dzud' - a multiple disaster with a summer drought followed by one of the coldest winters on record - it has left millions of livestock dying from a combination of exhaustion and starvation - some herders report that their cattle perish at the rate of 50 a night. Fears are also growing for thousands of herders who live in remote mountain regions in south-western Mongolia.
There has been no word from thousands of people cut off in their
villages by the heaviest snow fall in decades.
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