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Officials say near-freezing temperatures and icy Himalayan winds have killed dozens of people in northern India over the past two weeks.
A spokesman for worst-hit Uttar Pradesh state says five people died from the cold overnight, pushing the number of deaths there to 41.
Uttar Pradesh is one of India's poorest states and nearly a fifth of its 180 million people are homeless.
In New Delhi, at least 10 homeless people have died from the cold weather over the past two weeks despite a drive by police and welfare officials to persuade people living on the streets to sleep in 80 city-run shelters.
Arvinder Singh Lovely, New Delhi's education minister, ordered all schools to close for a week on Wednesday because of the intense cold in the capital.
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