In Romania, 80 % of the Danube River had been frozen over preventing ships
sailing towards the Black Sea; however the greatest concern was for children
within the European Union’s 2nd poorest nation.
Child
safety officers in the town of Iasi took three women into care following a
four-month-old child died in an unheated home where temps dipped as little as
minus 20C (minus 4 F).
As
much as 15,000 children in Iasi might be at risk from the cold along with a
further 6 children have been taken into treatment, the spokesperson said. The
cold click has so far killed 24 folks Romania and 11 in nearby Bulgaria. Europe
said the supply of Euro gas fell further with a Eastern Western states in
addition to Italy, Greece as well as Austria, but said hello was not yet
dealing with an emergency. All EU says have obtained additional gas using their
company sources.
In
Ukraine 101 individuals have now passed away – a further 38 previously 24 hours
– and grocery stores are short of food as trucks find it difficult to make
shipping. Eight more have left in Poland because Thursday. Clare Nulls, speaker
for the U.N.’s World Meteorological Company (WMO), told journalists that
Europe’s unseasonably comfortable December as well as January meant this could
not be a record breaking winter season.
What really happened? Why is it that this tragedy happened?
ReplyDeleteCentral and Eastern Europe had one of the coldest winter in over 100 years. It gave us an insight to what Little Ice Age was
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