Extreme weather has swept across western Europe from the UK to Spain over the weekend. Blizzards and rainstorms claimed several lives, disrupted air traffic and caused road incidents and power outages.
In France, three soldiers who were to be deployed to Mali died after their military car crashed on a slippery road in a mountainous area of the southern Massif Central region.
Several other fatal car crashes in the country were also reported. A Spanish couple died in an incident involving a truck and 10 cars in the same region. A driver also died in the central city of Tours when his car skidded on an icy motorway and crashed into an emergency vehicle.
In Portugal, where authorities issued the highest-level weather alert in some districts, an elderly man was killed when stormy winds hurled him through a door, causing fatal head injuries.Two men, one in his 40s and the other his 60s, died in Spain when powerful winds caused a wall to collapse on them.
An avalanche killed four climbers in the Scottish Highlands on Saturday as they ascended Bidean Nam Bian mountain, near Glencoe. Another climber was seriously injured in the incident, and six others survived.Later that same day, a man died when a car and a bus collided in Windmill Hill in Coventry in the UK’s West Midlands. A 26-year-old woman died when her car skidded off an icy road in Headington, Oxfordshire.
Read more: Winter woe: Deaths, torn-off roofs, uprooted trees as blizzards and rainstorms sweep Europe (PHOTOS) — RT
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