The high altitude tribal areas and high mountain passes reeled under piercing cold wave conditions with mercury staying between -5 and -10 degree Celsius while Keylong and Kalpa in tribal Lahaul and Spiti and Kinnaur recorded minimum temperatures at -1.1 and 0.6 degrees Celsius respectively.
Mercury dipped to 2.6 degrees Celsius at key tourist destination of Manali while Bhuntar in Kullu district and Sundernagar in Mandi district registered a low of 3.8 and 4.5 degrees Celsius, four notches below normal.
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Officials said the body of an unidentified person was
found at a bus stand and that of one Nepali national was found in a village on Tuesday. They are believed to have died due to cold.
Five migrant labourers hailing from Bihar and engaged in construction work died due to suffocation caused by carbon monoxide emitted from burning of firewood on Tuesday.
The body of a Senior Superintendent in the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Gopal Singh Kapatia (46), was found in his house in Chakker on Wednesday.
