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WORLD NEWS Thursday 1 March 2018

Heavy winter weather batters UK, European mainland

LONDON (AP) — Persis- amid continuing subzero
tent snow and freezing temperatures across the
conditions from a Siberian country, according to Ger-
cold snap snarled transit man news agency dpa.
Wednesday and caused a In Denmark, a 54-year-old
handful of deaths across a man who suffered from de-
swathe of Europe from Brit- mentia was found dead in
ain to the Balkans. the snow on the Baltic Sea
In the U.K., where the island of Bornholm, police
weather system has been said. In southern Serbia, an-
dubbed “the beast from other man suffering from
the east,” the weather of- dementia was found frozen
fice issued an alert for Scot- to death Wednesday after
land warning that heavy he disappeared from his
snow and strong wind home two days ago.
would bring widespread An elderly man died of
damage, disruption and cold when he went out to
risk to life late Wednesday collect wood near Mari-
and early Thursday. bor in Slovenia, authorities
“People should ask them- there said. Temperatures
selves the question ‘is this Members of the Household Cavalry return to their barracks as snow falls in London, Wednesday, in the country fell as low as
journey absolutely and Feb. 28, 2018. Britain, which is buffered by the Atlantic Ocean and tends to have temperate winters, -27 C (-16.6 F).
utterly essential?’ If not, saw heavy snow in some areas that disrupted road, rail and air travel and forced hundreds of Snowfall of up to 1.1 me-
do not travel,” Scottish schools to close. ters (3.6 feet) blanketed
Transport Minister Humza (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) all of Albania, including
Youssef said. country on alert for danger- would continue until Friday. Netherlands, likely while a rare accumulation in
The weather caused can- ous levels of snow, ice and Several deaths were attrib- skating. the capital, Tirana. Many
celations at Glasgow and violent wind. Urging people uted to the cold snap, in- A 38-year old man was schools in the countryside
Edinburgh airports, and to limit their movement, cluding a 75-year-old man found dead on a frozen did not have classes on
Scottish Premiership soccer Meteo France said snowfall who fell through ice in the river in northern Germany Wednesday.q
matches were canceled
Wednesday. Trains were Trains collide near Egyptian capital, 12 killed
canceled across the north
and east of Britain and as
far south as London, where By SAMY MAGDY reported that the collision deadly accidents and im- muter trains collided near
several subway lines expe- Associated Press killed 15 people and in- prove services. Last year Cairo. In 2002, a massive
rienced severe delays, in- CAIRO (AP) — A passenger jured 40, before revising its he said 180 billion Egyptian fire broke out on a train
cluding the Piccadilly Line train collided with a cargo toll downwards. pounds (about $10 billion) filled with local holiday
that links central London to train in Egypt on Wednes- Mahmoud Goma saw the were needed to overhaul travelers. The train sped for
Heathrow Airport. day, killing at least 12 peo- collision. He said he and the network, suggesting miles, with flames engulf-
Emergency officials said ple, including a child, in other local residents load- that ticket prices should be ing one carriage after an-
many drivers had to be the latest deadly accident ed injured people into their raised. Deadly accidents other, killing more than 370
rescued from stranded ve- involving the country’s un- cars to take them to the hos- have claimed hundreds of people. In November 2012,
hicles. Hundreds of schools derfunded and misman- pital, and that some died lives over the years. a speeding train crashed
were shut for a second aged railways. Another 39 on the way. Egypt’s railway In August, two passenger into a bus carrying children
day. people were injured in the system has a poor safety trains collided just outside to their kindergarten in the
The weather also forced crash, which took place in record, mostly blamed on Egypt’s Mediterranean country’s south, killing more
hospitals to cancel elec- the Nile Delta north of Cai- decades of poor manage- port city of Alexandria, kill- than 50, mostly children
tive procedures and out- ro, according to the state- ment and maintenance. ing 43 people, the coun- between the ages of four
patient care. run MENA news agency. President Abdel-Fatah el- try’s deadliest rail accident and six. Two months later,
France’s national weather The Health Ministry said the Sissi has spoken about the in more than a decade. at least 19 people died in
agency, Meteo France, trains were both bound for need to modernize the In 2016, at least 51 people a train derailment south of
put a large part of the the capital. MENA earlier railway system to prevent were killed when two com- Cairo. q