Europe cold snap claims 260 lives, causes ferry scare
- Published: 5/02/2012 at 07:32 AM
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The death toll from the vicious cold snap across Europe has risen to more than 260, with hundreds having to be rescued after a ferry caught in a snow storm hit a breakwater off Italy.
A man cleans snow-covered boats on Skadar lake near Vranjina. In tiny Montenegro, where one person was found frozen to death in a village, many hamlets in the mountainous north were cut off.
Ukraine has suffered the heaviest toll with 122 deaths, including many who froze to death in the streets as temperatures plunged to as low as minus 38.1 degrees Celsius (minus 36.5 Fahrenheit).
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- Writer: AFP News agency
- Position: Agence France-Presse
