The Siberian cold spell has asked already dozens of lives in Eastern Europe. In the Ukraine, the number of victims increased to 30. In Bulgaria at least eight people are frozen since the cold snap last weekend, in Poland at least ten. Schools have been closed temporarily, and in several countries also came to traffic problems.
The Siberian cold has removed further down but still far temperatures also Austria in hand, from the record of minus 37.4 degrees are (measured on 2 January 1905 at the Hohe Sonnblick in Salzburg). Front-runner in Tuesday night was St. Michael where the mercury at minus 21.3 degrees dropped. It has been so far a cold deaths in Austria, in 2010, in turn, 40 people are frozen according to the records of the Board of Trustees for road safety (KfV).
By the cold wave in the past few days, already 30 people have died in the Ukraine alone. Most of them were homeless, who froze to death at temperatures of up to minus 28 degrees on the road, as the Ministry of emergency announced on Tuesday in Kiev. Four people were found dead in their homes. More than 600 people needed medical attention due to frostbite and hypothermia, according to this, about 540 of them had to be treated in hospital......
By the cold wave in the past few days, already 30 people have died in the Ukraine alone. Most of them were homeless, who froze to death at temperatures of up to minus 28 degrees on the road, as the Ministry of emergency announced on Tuesday in Kiev. Four people were found dead in their homes. More than 600 people needed medical attention due to frostbite and hypothermia, according to this, about 540 of them had to be treated in hospital......
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