WASHINGTON – At least eight people have died in the US Midwest as theregion shivers in the grip of its worst cold snap in decades.
An Iowa student found dead outside a college building is among the victimsof the deadly freeze.
Hospitals have been treating patients reporting frostbite as life across aswathe of the nation grinds to a halt.
Ninety million people – a third of the US – have seen temperatures of -17C(0F) or below.
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Some 250 million Americans overall have experienced the “polar vortex”conditions, but southern states such as Florida have escaped the brutalchill.
