Falling icicles killed six people

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Six people have been killed in three days by icicles falling from buildings in a central Russian region, ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

Plummeting chunks of ice is an annual hazard for pedestrians in Russia during the spring when the sun finally melts thick layers of ice and snow which build up on roofs over months of freezing temperatures and darkness.

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The icicles must've been heavy or sharp, that may have killed them.
 
thanks to all the snow we have been having here in the midwest we have some pretty long icicles here as well that something like that could happen here as well.
 
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