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Five teens suffer hypothermia on Hong Kong's coldest winter day
Dec 16, 2010, 8:11 GMT
Hong Kong - Five teenage schoolboys were airlifted to hospital suffering from suspected hypothermia as temperatures plunged close to freezing point in Hong Kong Thursday.
A rescue helicopter picked up the boys who had been hiking in Hong Kong's rural New Territories where temperatures fell to six degrees Celsius, and lower in some places, on the coldest day of the winter so far.
A villager called emergency services after finding the boys suffering from the cold as they hiked in the Sai Kung district early Thursday morning, a police spokesman said.
Temperatures of minus two degrees Celsius were recorded at Hong Kong's highest hilltop, Tai Mo Shan, where ice and frost - hardly ever seen in the sub-tropical city - were sighted.
Urban temperatures Thursday were between seven and nine degrees, according to the government's Hong Kong Observatory. Average December temperatures in Hong Kong are between 15 and 20 degrees Celsius.
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