Photos: Hazardous weather in Europe

 

According to the BBC, at least 60 people have died due to freezing conditions caused by a cold snap in eastern and central Europe. Here are some pictures of the hazardous weather from across the continent.

 
January 31, 2012
 
 
 
Bulgarian Muslim women walk during a snowfall in the village of Rakovski.
 

Bulgarian Muslim women walk during a snowfall in the village of Rakovski.

Photograph by: NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV, Getty Images

 
Bulgarian Muslim women walk during a snowfall in the village of Rakovski.
Snow falls as a horse stands in a snow covered field near Dulverton, England.
A woman carries fire wood on a street in Bucharest.
Istanbul's old city over the Golden Horn in the mouth of Bosphorus straits is blanketed by snow.
A truck drives down a road with a line of snow covered trees near Dulverton, England.
A stray dog tries to catch birds on a frozen lake in a park in Bucharest.
Planes remain parked in front of hangars on snow covered tarmac at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.
A tractor with a snow plough clears snow off the road near Dulverton, England.
A woman walks in a blizzard in the village of Catelu, Romania.
A Land Rover drives down a road with a line of snow covered trees near Dulverton, England.
A man takes a walk along a footpath on Dunkery Hill, near Minehead, England.
The Vistula River is covered with ice floe near the old town of Warsaw, Poland.
Birds fly over a frozen lake in a park of Bucharest. Temperatures plunged to minus 27 degrees Celsius in central Romania.
A man tries to clear her car from snow during a blizzard in the village of Catelu, southeast of Bucharest.
People walk in the snow covered central Kiev as temperatures fell at -15 degrees Celsius.
 
 
 
 
 

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