Saturday, February 4, 2012

Deadly freeze extends icy grip on Europe



More than 200 people have been killed across Europe as temperatures plummeted to new lows amid forecasters' predictions that the week-long cold snap could intensify.

The latest death toll of 223 - tallied according to figures compiled by the AFP news agency - included hundreds of homeless people who have frozen to death in what has become the harshest European winter in decades.

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