Death Freeze Grips Europe, Killing 80

[Javaman]

http://news.yahoo.com/death-freeze-grips-europe-killing-80-175634464--abc-news.html

The severe cold weather currently gripping Eastern Europe has now spread to Italy and as far south as Turkey.

As many as 80 people have died, mainly in Ukraine and Poland, as the death freeze settles over the continent.

Dan Britton, a press officer at Britain's Met Office, told ABC News the cold weather stems from "a large area of high pressure sitting over Eastern Europe, which has brought about cold temperatures over quite a large area."

The Ukraine has suffered the most fatalities as emergency ministries confirmed 43 people had perished in minus-28 degree temperatures.

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[kentauros]

1. A report from this Middle Eastern paper doubles that figure!

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/February/international_February87.xml&section=international
Death toll from Europe’s deep freeze rises to 160

(AFP)

2 February 2012
WARSAW - A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 160 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggled to cope with temperatures that plunged to record lows in some places.

Nine more people died in Poland overnight as temperatures hit minus 32 Celsius (minus 25.6 Fahrenheit) in the southwest, bringing the overall toll to 29 since the deep freeze began last week, national police said.

In Ukraine, tens of thousands of people have headed to shelters trying to escape the freeze that the emergencies ministry said has now killed 63 people.

Most of them literally froze to death on the street, with only a handful making it to hospital before succumbing to hypothermia, the ministry said.

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I hope it ends for them soon.

[Solly Mack]

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