Cold snap in Europe claims 13 more lives

Cold weather in Europe has claimed up to 13 more lives as the icy winter weather hit the continent, closing schools, roads, airports, and forcing people to go yet another day without heat and power.

The gas cuts in Russia is part of the issue preventing people from keeping warm.

In Poland, six more people died from hypothermia, making the number 82 in total - 23 of them in the last few days.

In the Ukraine, five people died in the Kherson region where temperatures reached minus 19 degrees Celsius (minus 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit).

Two people died in Germany, temperatures hit minus 16 degrees Celsius, and even the French port of Marseille has been shut down, closing the airport and leaving 10,000 homes in the dark.

Schools are closed in many countries, and road and rail transport have all suffered severe disruptions across the entire continent.

One benefit to the cold weather was in the Netherlands, where for the first time in 12 years, a skating championship was held on a natural frozen pond in the northeast of Amsterdam.

However, 72,000 houses in Sarajevo are without heating for a third day after snow has completely shut down the capital.