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| Serbian villages stranded after heavy snow storms | Serbian villages stranded after heavy snow storms |
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| Authorities in Serbia say 11,000 villagers are trapped by heavy snow and blizzards as a cold spell grips eastern Europe. | Authorities in Serbia say 11,000 villagers are trapped by heavy snow and blizzards as a cold spell grips eastern Europe. |
| A police official, Predrag Maric, said on Thursday that those stranded live in remote mountainous areas of Serbia that cannot be reach by icy, snow-clogged roads. | A police official, Predrag Maric, said on Thursday that those stranded live in remote mountainous areas of Serbia that cannot be reach by icy, snow-clogged roads. |
| He said "the most dramatic" situation is near Sijenica, in Serbia's south-west, where it has been freezing cold or snowing for the 26 days, and diesel fuel supplies used by snowploughs are running low. | |
| The death toll in Europe from a week of freezing weather rose to 113 people, with reports of 20 more deaths in Ukraine, nine more in Poland and one more in Serbia. | The death toll in Europe from a week of freezing weather rose to 113 people, with reports of 20 more deaths in Ukraine, nine more in Poland and one more in Serbia. |
| A Polish government spokeswoman, Malgorzata Wozniak, said her country's victims were mostly homeless people under the influence of alcohol who had sought shelter in unheated buildings. Officials appealed to the public to quickly help anyone they saw in need. | |
| In Ukraine, 63 people have died from the cold in the last week. Nearly 950 others were hospitalised with hypothermia and frostbite, and more than 2,000 heated tents have been set up with hot food for the homeless. | |
| In Romania, three ships were blocked on the Danube river – one German, one Dutch and one Romanian – and efforts were made to unblock them from ice. | |
| In Bulgaria, where 16 towns recorded their lowest temperatures since records started 100 years ago, large sections of the Danube were frozen. | |
| In the Netherlands, Dutch authorities have banned boats from some of Amsterdam's canals and waterways in the hope of turning the water to ice and allow residents to go skating. |