More than 11,000 people stuck in the snow

About 11,500 people of a Serbian village are isolated by heavy snowfall, while the number of malaria deaths in Europe continues to skyrocket in a record cold spell.

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Serbian emergency rescue agency said the force is trying to cross the snow, opening access to 6,500 houses isolated in the snow in remote parts of the country. The state of emergency has been declared in 14 cities.

"We are trying all the way to pave the way because more snow storms are expected in the coming days , " said Predrag Maric, head of Serbia's Ministry of Interior's emergency rescue agency. .

The town of Sijenica, southwestern Serbia, was the hardest hit when it was submerged in cold and continuous snowfall for 26 days. The diesel fuel used for snow plowsers is now exhausted.'We hope to get supplies for these places today or tomorrow,' Mr Maric added.

A man walks past the car stuck in
thick snow layer in the village of Medvedja, Serbia. (Photo: AP)

In neighboring Bosnia, helicopters have been mobilized to transport necessities to isolated villages when a large amount of snow is covering many parts of Europe, bringing the heat down further at -33 degrees Celsius. The number of cold dead people across Europe has skyrocketed to 160 people.

The Ukranine emergency kit said that 63 more people had died cold, of which nearly 950 people were being cared for in hospital because of frostbite. In Hungary, sources say many people are groping for coal at an abandoned site in Farkaslyuk with bare hands in the cold.

The Polish Ministry of Home Affairs said the number of deaths in a record cold rose to 27. Local governments in central and eastern Poland also began to close some schools when the day temperature was -15 degrees Celsius.

"We expect more schools to be closed in the coming days , " said Grzegorz Zurawski, a spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Education. "Children are more susceptible to colds than adults."

In Romania, the government requested the deployment of military vehicles to rescue hundreds of people in vehicles trapped in high snow piles of up to 3m in some places. The army will try to break the ice to reach the villages, while the government frees three stranded ships in the Danube. The temperature has now dropped to such an extent that the Black Sea also began to freeze.

Cities in southern Bulgaria are witnessing a record low-temperature cold in the past 100 years. More than 100 schools have also closed. Meteorological agencies predict this extreme weather will last at least until mid-February.

However, according to the AP , cold weather is not necessarily disadvantageous everywhere. Dutch officials have banned ships on Amsterdam's canals and waterways in the hope that the country will freeze for people to skate here. Water-regulating plants and pumps in countries that are low compared to sea level and vulnerable to flooding are also closed to promote freezing channels.