DEADLY COLD SNAP GRIPS EUROPE.Byline: Cristi Cretzan Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The death toll from days of bitter cold, snow and ice across Europe reached more than 140 on Monday. Many of the victims were homeless or old people in the continent's poorest areas. Avalanches and frigid frig·id adj. 1. Extremely cold. 2. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse. temperatures have claimed lives from Spain to Moscow. But most of the deaths were reported in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. : Romania, where at least 43 people died; Poland, where doctors put the toll at 28; and Bulgaria, where at least 19 died. Much of the continent was expected to remain icy through New Year's celebrations. Heavy snow also stranded motorists, closed air and sea ports, delayed buses and trains, and led to hundreds of traffic accidents. In Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). , temperatures dipped and snow fell from Britain to the Mediterranean. |
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