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February 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Twenty-four children have died in refugee camps in the suburbs of the capital Kabul where thousands of Afghans live, having fled from the US-led war and the Taliban intimidation in the south.
Other minors lost their lives from the harsh cold in the central highlands, Ministry of Public Health spokesman, Ghulam Sakhi Kargar Noorughli, said in Kabul on Sunday.
“Over this past one month, we have 40 deaths recorded. All have died from cold and are mostly children,” he said.
According to National Weather Center, the landlocked mountainous country has experienced its worst cold snap and heaviest snow fall in at least 15 years.
UK-based Save the Children Fund, an internationally active NGO, warned on Sunday that the weather conditions were expected to worsen, putting more children at risk.
“This has been a brutal winter and children have little to protect them from the biting cold,” said Bob Grabman, the organization’s country director in Afghanistan.
He added that many people were struggling to survive without proper shelter, fuel, food, warm clothes or shoes.
Grabman went on to say that, at night, the temperature falls to extreme lows that threaten the lives of newborns and infants and called for urgent help for the families so that the minors can be protected.
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