Europe cold snap claims more victims

Al Jazeera Sunday 5th February, 2012

The death toll from the cold snap across Europe has risen to more than 260, with the winter misery set to hit thousands of those seeking to escape it as air traffic was hit. Airports were shut, flights and trains delayed, and highways gridlocked as emergency services raced to clear falling snow on Sunday. Steven Keates, a weather forecaster at Br...

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