Hottest year ever update: Poland cold weather death toll climbs to 52

Most of the victims were homeless seeking shelter in unheated abandoned buildings or garden sheds.
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Five Poles died from exposure to cold overnight, bringing the death toll to 52 since the start of the cold weather season last month, the Government Security Centre said on Sunday.

A spokesman for the centre said 37 people had died of exposure to cold so far in the first five days of December. Fifteen died in November.