Snowstorms kill at least seven in Romania

[senorpepr]

IASI, Romania (AFP) - At least seven people have died in blizzards which have raged for almost a week in northeastern Romania, according to a toll compiled by AFP.

The latest victims were a 16-year-old girl whose frozen body was found under a snowdrift outside the northeastern town of Vaslui, and a 46-year-old man who was hit and killed by a train after being blown into its path by gale-force winds in the same region.

On Sunday officials in the Neamt region, also in the northeast, said they had found the bodies of four men aged between 30 and 60 buried in snowdrifts.

And at the start of the weekend a 55-year-old man died of a heart attack in his car while blocked in a snowstorm for several hours overnight in the eastern town of Cuca.

Regional weather forecaster Mircea Amariucai said the past few days' blizzards were the worst seen in Romania in over 40 years.

Although the temperatures rose slightly on Monday, some 60 towns and villages in the northeast were still without electricity, and many local roads were impassable.

[TexasStooge]

NOT GOOD!!

Keep us posted.

[senorpepr]

Definately not. A bad situation throughout the continent.

...more to come as it filters into the newssites...