© Alexander Demianchuk/ReutersA man wears a mask to protect himself from the smog in central Moscow. Forest and peat bog fires caused by the hottest weather ever recorded in the Russian capital have raised the average daily death toll to 700
Tatiana Dyment found her 70-year-old mother sitting in the bathtub, her head leaning sideways and cold water from the showerhead still streaming down her back.
"She could have been dead for two to three days, doctors suppose," said the psychologist, who had rushed back to Moscow from vacation in Croatia after she couldn't reach her mother by phone. "The windows in her apartment on the sixth floor were wide open and every piece of furniture in the apartment smelled of burning" from the thick white smoke hanging in the air outside.
Doctors say her mother, Tatiana Belskaya, died of "acute heart insufficiency." Dyment, 31, has her own idea of what killed her usually fit mother: "I think this smog from the forest fires killed her."
On Monday, Moscow health authorities announced that the number of deaths each day in the capital had nearly doubled to 700 as most of central Russia entered the seventh week of a heat wave. The high temperatures, hovering around 100 degrees, have
destroyed 30% of the nation's grain crops and triggered massive peat bog and forest fires that alone have killed more than 50 people and devastated dozens of villages.
Comment: We find it curious that the mainstream media is widely reporting the altered jet stream to be responsible culprit behind this triple whammy of devastation.
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