Europe shivers in winter storms
A bitterly cold winter storm gripped parts of Europe today, leaving at least three sailors dead after a ship sank and thousands of travellers stranded at airports, on snowy mountain roads and in remote villages.
In Western Europe, ice and snow disrupted traffic. The Mont-Blanc tunnel linking France and Italy was closed to trucks until Friday because sharp temperature differences between the two sides threatened to disrupt the tunnel’s ventilation.
