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Showing posts with label Increased to 19 the number of those killed in Algeria since Friday due to snow and bad weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Increased to 19 the number of those killed in Algeria since Friday due to snow and bad weather. Show all posts

2/07/2012

19 killed in Algeria because of the snow and cold

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Algerian meteorology: the thickness of snow in the next couple of days up to 40 cm (French)

Increased to 19 the number of those killed in Algeria since Friday due to snow and bad weather, as many of the isolated mountain villages, according to local officials andcorrespondents of newspapers. On the other hand, historical precedent not seen in the Libyan capital Tripoli for decades, fell Monday of large quantities of snow on the city.

The Algerian security official in the tribal region said three people were killed whenGmrthm snow on Sunday night.

The sources of civil protection and the national gendarmerie announced Saturday killed 16 people in separate incidents linked to bad weather conditions that have not been seensince Algeria sixties of the last century.

The reporter pointed out that re-open the main roads linking the cities, but the roads linkingthe villages of Upper Kabylia and cities are still closed, with some residents deprived of electricity and gas to meet the severe cold wave.

In Constantine, a large number of states east of Algeria remained cut off several roadsMonday morning despite efforts by authorities to re-open it.

The Algerian News Agency reported that bad weather caused on Saturday and Sunday to cancel 116 flights to and from Algiers International Airport "Houari Boumediene" In theairports of the country's northern regions.

Most of the snow-covered streets of Tripoli (European)
Resume flight
The Director of International Operations International Airport Houari Boumediene RizkiHassan Algerian radio that all international flights resumed normally, excluding airportsConstantine and Setif (east), which Atakhran in the resumption of flights for some time.

And issued the interests of the Algerian Meteorological special bulletin warning of heavysnow fall during the next two days in 19 states out of 48, declaring that the thickness of thesnow up to forty centimeters.

Snow in Libya
In Libya, Tripoli, the capital has seen in the early hours of dawn on Monday, loss of large amounts of snow covered most of their respective fields and streets, in the historical precedent not seen for decades.

The snowfall coincided with a sharp drop of temperature in most Libyan cities, especiallythe mountainous ones, which reached in some cases to less than three degrees Celsius,which is considered very rare. And snow covered roads and reached about fivecentimeters thick.

It is noteworthy that the population of the mountainous regions of Libya, which has the atmosphere of a desert, accustomed from time to time to see snow in their areas.

Source: Agencies

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