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Killed by a wave of cold in Europe exceed 250
posted on: Feb 4 2012 12:55 by RDugey. Viewed 26 times.
More than 250 people, many of them poor and without fixed abode, died in Europe due to the cold snap that shakes from a week ago to the old continent, mainly Poland and Ukraine, two countries Saturday already totaling 167 deaths.
In Ukraine there were 122 dead, and posts of relief, where the homeless can take refuge and receive a hot meal, already lodged to 65,000 people, 12,000 of them in the last 24 hours.
Temperatures, which during the day down to - 21 ° C and - 30 ° C at night, go up Saturday.
In Poland, where the thermometer reached-27 ° overnight on Friday in the Northeast, the cold caused the death of eight others, bringing the total to 45. For the most part, it was people who are homeless.
Bosnia was also paralysed on Saturday by snow.
In Romania, were registered in the last 28 days dead, and hundreds of schools remained closed, u000aAccording to data disclosed Saturday.
In Bulgaria, the poorest country of the European Union (EU), cold weather killed 16 persons.
The balance of the cold wave in other countries of Eastern Europe was the Friday of 36 dead: 10 in Latvia, nine in Lithuania, seven in Serbia, six Czech Republic, two in Greece, one in Slovakia and one in Macedonia.
In Russia, where the temperatures approached al - 25 ° C in Moscow and were almost - 50 ° c in Yakutia (Eastern Siberia), at least 64 people died of cold in nationwide from January 1, according to the balance sheet provided Friday by authorities, who did not give figures on the current wave of cold.
However, the frigid temperatures not prevented tens of thousands of people said in Moscow, some in favor and others against first Minister Vladimir Putin.
In France, two people died of cold. Temperatures dropped to-20 ° in the city of Reims and Mulhouse u000a(East).
At a time when the French authorities urged limiting consumption of electricity, given strong demand caused by the use of heating, Russia's Gazprom gas giant announced Saturday that may not guarantee additional shipments requested by Western Europe.
En Italy, Rome remained paralysed on Saturday morning after snowfall affecting much of the peninsula.
Germany continued to suffer the cold wave Saturday, with temperatures below - 10 degrees in all cities of the country, and even from-16 ° in Berlin.
In Austria, the thermometer dropped to-28 ° in the mountains of the Centre and of Tyrol (West), and a man died of cold after a traffic accident, bringing to four the number of dead since the beginning of the cold wave.
In Great Britain, most of the country remained on alert Saturday, with falls of snow provided for in the Centre and East of u000aEngland.
In Spain were registered temperatures of-13 °.
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