KYRGYZSTAN: Earthquake survivors battle cold snap

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DUBAI, 30 January 2008 (IRIN) - Well over half the roughly 5,000 people made homeless by an earthquake which struck southern Kyrgyzstan on 1 January are still living in tents and trying to survive harsh wintry conditions, aid officials say.

"It is extremely cold, particularly in mountain villages where the temperature drops to minus 20. All affected people want to get back to their houses or start reconstructing them as soon as possible [but] they cannot do it now because it is too cold," Aigul Atakanova, head of the disaster management department of the Kyrgyz Red Crescent Society (KRCS), told IRIN from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on 30 January.