Rajbiraj, Jan. 11 -- year-old Umesh Khanga, a daily wage worker from Gorpar in Kanchanrup Municipality-3 of Saptari district, has been left in the lurch after its breadwinner died while working in extreme cold conditions.

Khanga, who sustained his family with income from physical labour, had travelled to Rupnagar in Kanchanrup-12 on Friday to work on a rooftop concrete job. Local residents said a cold wave sweeping the Tarai had been severe that day, with icy winds blowing over open rooftops.

While working under such conditions, Khanga's limbs reportedly got numb, and he collapsed at the site.

Fellow workers rushed him to Dhameshwar Hospital, but doctors there were unable to provide care. He was then referred to Kanchanpur Hospital for...