North Europe freeze kills 12 in Poland, disrupts transport
WARSAW/LONDON, Dec 3 – Twelve people froze to death in Poland overnight and air, rail and road traffic across Northern Europe remained badly disrupted by snow and ice Friday.
In Germany, a record-breaking cold snap and heavy snow this week was expected to hit growth slightly, the second time low temperatures have affected growth this year.
"A lot of construction projects have been halted, a lot of business trips have been postponed and freight transport has become quite difficult," Volker Treier, chief economist of the chamber of industry and commerce (DIHK), told Reuters.
Britain's second busiest airport, Gatwick, reopened but an airport official said flights would be severely disrupted. The Eurostar train service linking Britain to France and Belgium said delays and cancellations would continue until Sunday.
Every winter in Poland and parts of the former Soviet Union many people die in the snow, mostly homeless or drunk. The latest figure from the Polish Interior Ministry brought the total killed in the past three days to 30.
In Ukraine, the Emergencies Ministry said at least four people had been found dead from the cold over the past four days in the western regions of Lviv, Zhytomyr and Ternopil.
Severe frost also left some 150,000 people in the southern Polish city of Czestochowa without heating early Friday.
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