New York Times: The daily mortality rate here has nearly doubled in recent days, the city's chief health official said Monday, singling out the heat as the primary factor and not the culprit most people here suspected: the choking cloud of wildfire smoke. The acknowledgment at once confirmed a flurry of rumors that bodies were beginning to pile up in morgues and gave rise to a new one in which the authorities, possibly trying to ward off a panicked exodus, were engaging in a Soviet-style whitewash ......
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Russia: Amid heat and smoke, deaths double in Moscow
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 10th, 2010
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