Deaths as winter hits Poland

4th December 2010

A little snow has not stopped most Poles getting about

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At least 18 people died and transport chaos descended over the country as a cold front rollicking in from the north sent temperatures plummeting and dumped huge quantities of snow.

Police said most of the victims were homeless people with a drinking problem who had succumbed to hypothermia, and warned that more could died as emergency services struggled to cope with the sudden cold snap that left around 30 centimetres of snow across Poland.

As the snow fell, hundreds of thousands of people were caught up in a transport nightmare as road, rail and air links suffered.

In scenes similar to those at the country’s regional airports, stressed passengers at Warsaw’s Okiecie airport had ...

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