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Two hundred killed by the storm
posted on: Feb 4 2012 12:54 by RDugey. Viewed 18 times.
More than 200 people, half of them in Ukraine, have died as a result of the polar cold wave that it shakes Eastern Europe for seven days and that this weekend he arreciará in the South of the continent.
In Ukraine, the polar cold wave has caused up to now 101 dead, 38 of them in the last twenty-four hours.
The regions most affected are those in the western part of Ukraine, close to the border with Poland, where thermometers showed this minimum at dawn of 29 degrees below zero. Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azárov, explained that rigorous Frost have forced the country to increase their consumption of natural gas and electricity.
Energy needs have soared across the continent and in several countries of Central Europe there have been problems of the Russian gas supplies as a result of the sharp rise in demand.
Russia recorded yesterday 26 degrees below zero, the lowest Daytime temperature of a winter u000athat until now has been unusually mild
Authorities of that country have not given data on fatalities since the storm began a week ago, but the Russian Deputy Minister for health, Maxim Topilin, indicated that in the entire month of January, at least 64 people died due to cold.
Poland remains after Ukraine, the country where temperatures have caused more havoc, with a total of 37 dead in the course of a week, eight of them only during last night.
Six people were also killed in Bosnia.
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