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Afghanistan

Driven Away by a War, Now Stalked by Winter’s Cold

Correction Appended

By ROD NORDLAND Published: February 3, 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan — The following children froze to death in Kabul over the past three weeks after their families had fled war zones in Afghanistan for refugee camps here:

Mirwais, son of Hayatullah Haideri. He was 1 ½ years old and had just started to learn how to walk, holding unsteadily to the poles of the family tent before flopping onto the frozen ridges of the muddy floor.

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