Bent under heavy winds and laboring to breathe in the frigid, thin air, international teams rescued about 500 people trapped by a snow avalanche, many of whom had spent more than a day trapped in cars as temperatures plunged to minus 40.
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Interesting successful medical cases of Dr . Fridman include reviving a group of alpinists that were found after 3 days buried under snow avalanche by directing to transport them with heads in snow and then slowly warming while keeping heads at low temperature.
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Also Thursday, rescuers labored in intense cold high in the soaring mountains north of Kabul to save people trapped in a snow avalanche that killed up to three people, and the government appealed for help in reaching others stuck in the rugged mountain pass.
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International teams led by The HALO Trust, a British-based demining group that had bulldozers in the area, rescued some 500 people from the snow avalanche Thursday, including hundreds who were trapped in vehicles for more than a day in temperatures that fell to minus 40.
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Aside from injuries due to numerous minor fender-benders, National Police Agency officials said the only injuries reported nationwide due to the snow were of two men who fell while shoveling off their roofs Friday, and a skier partially covered in a snow avalanche Saturday . ( bks-jc)
