Romania: Gov't calls military, gendarmes to save hundreds trapped in snow

January 27, 2012

Gov't calls military, gendarmes to save hundreds trapped in snow
Jan 27, 2012

Gov't calls military, gendarmes to save hundreds trapped in snow.
Blizzard and snow paralysed Romania, closing 26 national roads and 80 county roads, and the motorways A1 Bucharest-Pitesti and A2 Bucharest-Lehliu. Hundreds of vehicles were blocked in traffic by snow, including ambulances with patients onboard, broken trees fell across roads, trains and (...)
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