Dozens Killed by Frost in Europe

At least 61 people have died over the past week across Europe as a result of the coldest weather in years, a report said.

The extreme winter weather over a wide expanse of land from the Baltic states and Poland southward to the Mediterranean Sea left villages cut off, caused power and water outages, froze rivers and lakes, grounded flights and led to widespread road accidents, the Associated Press reported.

A third of the deaths have been in Poland. Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and the Czech Republic also reported fatalities. Migrants, the elderly and the homeless have been especially hard-hit.

Most problems happened because governments in Europe were not ready for such weather conditions.

Temperatures also plummeted to the lowest level in years in Warsaw, Minsk, Budapest, and Moscow.