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2/13/2012

Cold snap and snow left more than 600 victims in Europe


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Left cold wave and frost sweeping the European continent since ten days more than 600 people dead. And still expect the cold wave victims, especially in eastern Europe amid expectations that the snowfall will continue in the coming days.Aggravated cold wave death toll from severe gripping Europe ten days ago, on Saturday after a night frost, to exceed the 600 people with 13 new deaths, mostly in the east of the continent, while taking the situation is improving in Italy.
For the first time since the sell-century ice covered the entire Danube River near the port of Silistra north-west of Bulgaria, who has not seen this since the cold winter 1984-1985.And ice covered the full without any movement of water in the river on Saturday morning along the 11 km near the port while covered by the ice between 40 to 90% the rest of the river in Bulgaria, a 450 km.
Download and frozen Danube, several countries including Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Hungary to the suspension of traffic.
In the entire continent, and especially Eastern Europe and the Balkans is still cold wave victims and expect the total toll of Saturday morning, 600 people, including victims of Russia.
And recorded three cases of the death of another in Serbia toll rises to cold in the southern Balkans to 40 people (19 and 11 in Serbia and in Bosnia in Mutinegro four and three in Croatia and two in Macedonia and one in Albania).
And still more than a hundred thousand people isolated in remote villages in Serbia and Montenegro's capital Podgorica was hit with paralyzed by the ice layer exceeds fifty centimeters thick, the country has not seen like fifty years ago.
And is expected to continue along the snow this weekend.In Romania, eight people died from the severe cold during the twenty-four hours to go up toll to 65 while the victim was still about thirty thousand people, which is the number dropped by half since Friday, stranded Saturday by the accumulation of snow ice.
In the village of Krligoul Mick east of the country, completely covered in snow up to the surface some of the houses, and working firefighters and volunteers to help residents dig passages towards their homes.
And the opening of an air bridge since Friday to send food to the towns that has become inaccessible by road.
In Ukraine, the authorities stopped the announcement of the daily number of victims after they were last Tuesday what the outcome of at least 135 people making Ukraine the country hardest hit by the cold.
In Poland, the frost has claimed the lives of 82 people since the beginning of the cold wave, while the current was almost killed fiftieth asphyxiation or carbon monoxide dioxide in fires caused by heating equipment is intact.
In Russia, 46 people have died since the beginning of February / February
Also received 24 people were killed in Lithuania and Latvia in ten and one in Estonia.
In the Czech Republic is expected that the temperatures can fall to less than forty below zero Saturday and Sunday in the mountains and to less than 25 in Prague, killing at least 25 people were killed 16 in Hungary, five in Slovakia.
And forced Bulgaria, where a cold to the death of thirty people for ten days, Friday to halt its exports of electricity due to their need to both its production capacity to meet domestic consumption.
Five people also died in Greece.
In Italy, where the cold wave has caused the deaths of 45 people, continued to fall snowfall Saturday morning in Rome, but several areas covered by snow for the second time within a week, this time was able without difficulty to cope with the emergency situation.
And drove the bus, tram and metro Saturday morning almost normally in the capital, in contrast to the chaos caused by the fall of snow last week.
This time, authorities were better prepared and distributed as ten thousand shovel and put 700 trucks of snow sweeping the streets and in the largest five thousand tons of salt to be removed.
In France, two people died Friday night to go up the death toll since 11 days to 14.
The victims were a couple who died at the age of sixty on the bank of a lake where it appears that they were in the boat when Itjolan fallen man in the water I tried to save his wife and was able to bring him to land, but they died of severe cold before rescue them.
On the other hand resumed the supply of gas to Turkey from Azerbaijan after a hiatus of several days because of a malfunction caused by ice in the pumping station in the Caspian Sea on the Anatolia news agency reported.
And reached the frost to the north of Africa, especially Algeria, where 46 people died because of the cold in a matter of a week, and left some residents angry over lack of roads and to help them Atloha while the authorities started to organize themselves after exposure to severe criticism.
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