Cold snap death toll rises to 20

Municipalities which requested food assistance received 51 tons of foodstuffs, Interior Ministry Emergency Management Sector Head Predrag Marić has stated.

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Sunday, 12.02.2012.

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Municipalities which requested food assistance received 51 tons of foodstuffs, Interior Ministry Emergency Management Sector Head Predrag Maric has stated. “The food should be delivered to all vulnerable households by helicopters, snowmobiles, SUVs and if need be, even on foot,” he told Tanjug. Cold snap death toll rises to 20 A total of 20 people fell victim to the snow and extremely low temperatures in Serbia so far, and nine people were killed in an avalanche in the Kosovo municipality of Dragac where rescue teams are searching for one more person thought to have gone missing. In the vicinity of the southern Serbian town of Vranje rescue teams are searching for one ill person. According to Maric, the outcome of the rescue operation will be known soon. He said that ever since emergency situation had been declared, additional 203 vehicles had been engaged in the field, of which almost 30 machines and several hundred Serbian Army (VS) soldiers. According to him, the municipalities experiencing greatest hardships are the ones where the emergency was declared on February 6 and 12, because these municipalities are snowbound by huge quantities of snow which cannot be taken away. Tanjug

Cold snap death toll rises to 20

A total of 20 people fell victim to the snow and extremely low temperatures in Serbia so far, and nine people were killed in an avalanche in the Kosovo municipality of Dragać where rescue teams are searching for one more person thought to have gone missing.

In the vicinity of the southern Serbian town of Vranje rescue teams are searching for one ill person. According to Marić, the outcome of the rescue operation will be known soon.

He said that ever since emergency situation had been declared, additional 203 vehicles had been engaged in the field, of which almost 30 machines and several hundred Serbian Army (VS) soldiers.

According to him, the municipalities experiencing greatest hardships are the ones where the emergency was declared on February 6 and 12, because these municipalities are snowbound by huge quantities of snow which cannot be taken away.

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