ULAN BATOR, May 12 (Xinhua): A heavy snowstorm had swept through southern Mongolian province of Umnugovi since Saturday, killing at least four people, the provincial government said on Sunday evening.
"Rescuers of the province's emergency management department have found alive 37 of the 41 herders who lost in the snowstorm. Unfortunately, remaining four people, including two members of a family from Tsogttsetsii soum of the province froze to death during the snowstorm on Saturday night," the provincial government said in a statement.
The number of livestock animals lost in the storm was not certain, according to the statement.
Several other Mongolian provinces, including Dundgovi in the south and Uvurkhangai and Tuv in the central, have suffered from heavy snow this weekend.
