Hypothermia

Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of dozens of people missing after a landslide swept through a town in Venezuela, killing at least 36.

More than 3,000 rescuers were deployed in Las Tejerias, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the capital Caracas, after Venezuela's worst natural disaster in decades.

The endangered Caretta caretta sea turtles are at the risk of experiencing cold shock due to hypothermia with the onset of winters as the air cools down, said Professor Yakup Kaska, the head of the Sea Turtles Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (DEKAMER), adding that there is no problem in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas at present.

The main opposition leader has slammed the government after two soldiers died of hypothermia while keeping the night guard in the eastern Anatolian province, demanding a full-scale probe into the incident.

More than 4500 lifeguards for the beaches and open waters and about 10,000 pool rescuers have been trained over the last ten years, said Anton Nalbantov, director of the Bulgarian Red Cross Waterway Service at the opening of the traditional Water Rescue Week. He added that 1300 lifeguards are needed for the beach in Bulgaria.

Two men from Plovdiv drowned last night in Pomorie. Perhaps one of them had hypothermia or stiffness and started drowning, and the other man went into the water to save him.

The police are still checking whether the incident has occurred outside the beach lifeguards' working time.

Four tourists have died in the Swiss Alps and five others are in a bad state after being forced to spend the night out in the Pin d'Arola area because of bad weather, police of Canton Vale said.
 
The rescuers found a total of 14 people, some of whom had hypothermia, and one was dead, apparently as a result of a fall.

Police in a region of Greece that borders Turkey say another person has died of hypothermia on a route used by migrant smugglers despite freezing temperatures.

Authorities said the body of a man was discovered buried in snow outside a Greek village on Monday. They think he probably died over the weekend.

The human-traders are not willing to slow down the refugee flows. Without hesitations they lead lightly-dressed people into the river of Evros in northern Greece. The result, as expected, is that people are running the risk of hypothermia or even death, unless they are found really fast by the authorities.

Two men have died overnight in a village near the town of Gadzin Han from exposure to the cold, Serbia's state broadcaster RTS reported on Tuesday morning.

These are the first victims of freezing in the Nis District during the current cold wave, which has seen temperatures drop to under minus 20 degrees Celsius in some areas of Serbia during the night.

Ten people lost their lives on Sunday as the result of the extreme conditions in Poland. The temperature remains many degrees under zero. In some areas it has reached as low as -20.

The people that fell victims of hypothermia since November 1st are 65 in total.