BRRRRRRR!: BIG FREEZE HITS CHINA: BIGGEST SNOWFALL IN NEARLY 60 YEARS!

Rescuers evacuated thousands of rural residents from north-west China after extreme cold and blizzards killed four people and left half a million snowed under:

In neighbouring Mongolia, an official appealed for help from the international community as his country battled the most severe winter it has seen in 30 years.

Storms in China’s far western Xinjiang flattened or damaged about 100,000 homes and more than 15,000 livestock were killed.

Herders moved thousands of others to safer pastures at lower altitudes ahead of the latest storm front, which is expected to last until Wednesday.

Temperatures in parts of Xinjiang are set to plunge to minus 43C by midweek.

Snow was falling in the region’s Altay district in China’s extreme north-west corner, 1,600 miles from Beijing.

Parts of northern China are seeing their harshest winter in decades, with Beijing this month receiving its heaviest one-day snowfall in 59 years. Temperatures in the capital were set to rise above freezing this week.

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