Snow, ice paralyse Europe as brutal cold snap disrupts flights, rail services
Thousands stranded as chaos grounds flights, with black ice sparking fatal accidents, while death toll rises to six in season’s worst freeze
Snow, ice and high winds brought transport chaos to swathes of Europe for a third day on Wednesday, with hundreds of flights cancelled and passengers stranded.
Airports in Paris and Amsterdam were the worst affected, with the Dutch authorities saying more than 1,000 travellers had been forced to spend the night at Schiphol, one of Europe’s busiest hubs.
Six people have died in weather-related accidents as the continent reels from the most bitter cold snap of the winter so far.
Five of those deaths were confirmed in France on Tuesday, while a woman died in Bosnia as heavy snow and rain sparked floods and power outages across the Balkans.
For those without homes sleeping on the streets, the cold snap has come as a huge shock.
Boubacar Camara, from Guinea, said he had “no choice but to keep on going”.