Homeless people are facing an extremely difficult winter period as temperatures plunge in the run-up to Christmas.
People living on the streets are ‘freezing, blue, shivering and scared’ and some will freeze to death, as more sub-zero temperatures are predicted this winter, a grassroots group has warned.
Snow engulfs a sleeping bag lying on the hard, cold street in one picture taken in the capital, highlighting the haunting conditions people are facing. SWEP is triggered when temperatures fall below 0°C and is designed to ensure councils open additional emergency accommodation for people sleeping rough when there is an increased risk of death due to the weather.
Describing what she has seen in the past week, one of the organisation’s coordinators, Elodie Berland, told Metro.co.uk: ‘We arrived to a park to find a frozen sleeping bag, people with barely anything on just sleeping on the cold floor, people hiding in bushes and on top of vents around hospitals and stuff trying to keep warm, to stay safe.
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