The World - News from Feb. 4, 1986
The death toll in four days of heavy snow and freezing cold across southern Europe rose to at least 35, including a Frenchwoman asphyxiated by heater fumes and five people--three of them believed to be Americans--who were killed in an Italian traffic pileup. The deaths during one of the heaviest snowfalls in 40 years included 16 in Italy, 11 in France, five in Spain, two in Austria and one in Britain. Residents of southern France began digging out from drifts up to 10 feet deep, as new snow halted road-clearing operations.
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