The body of a 35-year-old man was found on Wednesday near GT Road in Paragpur area of Jalandhar, police said. A beggar had died due to the cold in Jalandhar on December 6.
The two neighbouring states have been reeling under a cold wave with night temperatures ranging upto 2 degrees Celsius below normal at some places.
The mercury hovered between 3 degrees C above normal to 2 degrees C below normal at many places in the region, the Met office said in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Hisar recorded a night temperature of 4.8 deg C, which is two notches below normal, while Bathinda settled at 3.3 deg C.
While Narnaul settled at a low of 5.5 deg C, the minimum at Amritsar was 4.8 deg C.
Among other places, Bhiwani and Karnal had an identical low of 6.8 deg C followed by Ludhiana at 6.9 deg C.
Rohtak had a low of 6.1 deg C which was one notch below normal, while the minimum at Chandigarh was 9.7 deg C, three notches above normal.
Ambala settled at 7.7 deg C and Patiala at 7.4 deg C. While Adampur recorder a minimum temperature of 6.7 deg C, Halwara and Pathankot settled at 5.9 deg C and 7.8 deg C respectively.
Some places in the region, including Ambala, Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Bathinda, Jalandhar and Gurdaspur, were engulfed under fog in the morning, reducing visibility upto a few metres only.
The met office has forecast a further dip in night as well as day temperatures during the next 48 hours.
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