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Freezing weather hits central and eastern Europe

Europe receives copious amount of snowfall that has resulted in temperatures dipping below zero in many countries.

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Two men look over Buda Castle during snowfall atop Gellert Hill in Budapest, Hungary. [Balazs Mohai/Hungry Out/EPA]
Published On 5 Jan 2016
cold weather in central and eastern Europe
A car drives up a hill on an icy road near Sarajevo, Bosnia. Over the past two days, the snow has reached about 30 cm in height and daytime temperatures dropped to -8 Degree Celsius. Snowfall has hampered the traffic in some parts of the country and the region. [Amel Emric/AP]
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Pancake ice on the river Vistula in Warsaw, Poland. Very severe freeze remains in the capital for the last few days. The temperature at night reaches 15 degrees Celsius below zero. [Tomasz Gzell/Poland Out/EPA]
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A family builds snowmen during this winter's first snow on top of the Feldberg mountain, 20km west of Frankfurt, Germany. [Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters]
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A general view over the snow-covered Verzasca valley near Brione, Switzerland. [Samuel Golay/EPA]
cold weather in central and eastern Europe
People walk under umbrellas in Aosta, northern Italy, after snowfall. Temperatures were forecast to hover around the zero Degrees Celsius mark. [Thierry Pronesti/EPA]
cold weather in central and eastern Europe
People walk down a path in the snowy park at Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. [Christian Bruna/EPA]
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A group of refugees move through snow towards train station near the border with Croatia, in Dobova, Slovenia. [Darko Bandic/AP]
cold weather in central and eastern Europe
A man on a bike passes the De Witte Molen, or the White Windmill, in Glimmen, The Netherlands. [Vincent Jannink/EPA]
cold weather in central and eastern Europe
A munincipal worker operates a small snow plough during snowfall in Erzsebet Square of Nagykanizsa, 211km southwest of Budapest, Hungary. [Cyorgy Varga/Hingary Out/EPA]