Extreme cold wave causes 11 deaths in the United States

Up to now, at least eleven people have died in the United States because of the polar cold wave that affects 75% of the population of this country, or about 216 million inhabitants.

The extreme cold wave has brought temperatures down to nearly 40 degrees below zero and the thermal sensation to about 50 degrees below zero in the state of Minnesota, the most northerly state the United States.

The National Weather Service predicts that, throughout the day, temperatures will slightly decrease with the arrival of snow in an area where frost and hypothermia occur in the rooms of the hotel. The urgency of hospitals has increased, according to the agency. Spanish EFE.

The state of Minnesota has suffered today the worst damage from this polar cold wave and, in the area closest to the Canadian border with thermometers marked this morning at 39 ° below zero and in the nearby town of Duluth recorded a thermal sensation of 49 degrees below zero.

Meanwhile, Chicago has experienced temperatures in the past 48 hours below the South Pole, Siberia or even Mars, which has paralyzed the third most populous city in the country, with 2,700,000 inhabitants.

This forced its inhabitants to virtually disappear from the streets and to stay in their homes in order to avoid the arctic air mbad that lasts for days in the center-west and the region. Great Lakes with thermal sensations reaching 55 degrees zero

The deaths linked to this wave of polar cold are already at least eleven, according to the provisional count established Thursday by the authorities.

Among the deaths, there is the case of a young couple who died in a car accident in rural Indiana and three others in Iowa, including an 18-year-old student who was found lying on the campus of the school. local university.

In addition, one man was hit by a snow sweeper in Illinois, and another apparently stumbled and fell in front of his home in Peoria, in the same state, and died frozen before receiving any fire. ;help.

At the same time, two other people died as a result of cold exposure in Michigan, one in Detroit and one in the town of Ecorse, while one man was collapsed in front of his garage while he was shoveling snow in Milwaukee.