THE death toll from a deep freeze in Poland has increased to 30 with a dozen more deaths overnight, officials said yesterday, while some of the worst floods in a century devastated parts of the Balkans.

Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures have swept across Europe killing at least eight homeless people, closing major airports and causing hundreds of road accidents.

Fourteen people have died and 12 others have been injured, many seriously, after a bus fell off a cliff in Albania.

An explosive device killed a conservative politician as he drove through northern Albania today, 10 days ahead of the country’s parliamentary election, police said.