Heavy snowfalls have caused widespread power outages and road accidents in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
In the Czech municipality of Hertvikovice, according to information from the CTK news agency, a motorist was killed by a tree on Saturday and fell on the moving car on a country road.
In the Polish village of Wawrzka, southeast of Kraków, a 70-year-old woman in need of care died after her oxygen device failed after the power supply collapsed, the PAP news agency reported on Saturday.
Relatives had alerted the rescue and fire brigade, but the fire engine that was supposed to bring her an oxygen bottle as a replacement crashed in the snow flurry on the way. CTK also reported a fatal traffic accident related to the weather in Prague.
According to PAP reports, more than a hundred thousand households in Poland were temporarily without electricity. In most cases, trees that had fallen on power lines were the cause. In Slovakia, too, the power supply to thousands of households failed due to the weather and the police reported numerous weather-related traffic accidents. (dpa)
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