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Powerless in the freezing cold: Texas faced a violent winter storm
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Unusually icy winter weather with heavy snowfall caused massive power outages in the southern US state of Texas at the beginning of the year.
Millions of people had to endure without electricity in freezing temperatures.
Now the Texas Ministry of Health announced that the death toll after the cold spell in February was at least 111 people.
This almost doubled the initial number after one of the worst power outages in US history.
Earlier this month, Texas authorities estimated the death toll at 57 but warned it would increase.
The majority of deaths are associated with hypothermia, according to the Ministry of Health.
The number could continue to rise as officials link even more deaths to the storm.
In Texas at times just over 4.4 million people were without electricity - the mostly electric heating failed in a number of houses and apartments.
According to the Texan network operator Ercot, almost two thirds of the failures were due to the energy sources gas, coal and nuclear power.
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