2023-11-28 11:22:01
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — At least two people died and several children were trapped overnight in a school, according to German media, after an early start to winter caused heavy snowfall and icy roads in northern Europe, causing It complicated the routine and created dangerous conditions on the roads.
Further north, Scandinavia recorded unusually cold temperatures for November. Temperatures dropped below zero degrees Celsius almost everywhere in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Several points on the Norwegian west coast recorded record lows for the month on Monday, according to public television NRK.
The western German state of Hesse was particularly affected by snowy and icy roads, with power outages due to fallen trees in some places, according to the dpa news agency.
In Hesse, road accidents were reported and several trees collapsed due to the weight of the snow. Some drivers were trapped in their cars in the Rheingau-Taunus district and about a hundred people had to be rescued due to fallen trees near the town of Eltville.
In the nearby city of Wiesbaden, many roads had to be closed completely. Students and staff at one school had to spend the night in the building because school buses stopped running. Firefighters set up makeshift bedrooms for the 55 stranded people, including 27 children.
The winter weather wreaked havoc elsewhere in the country. There were many reports of traffic accidents in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg. In neighboring Saxony-Anhalt, a school bus with 16 children skidded into a ditch on Tuesday morning due to the state of the road. One child was injured, according to police.
In the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a 71-year-old man died in a head-on collision on a slippery road on Monday night, while a 54-year-old female driver died in another accident on a slippery road in the neighboring state of Rhineland. Palatinate, according to dpa.
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