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Three die as snow hits eastern and central France

Three people died on Thursday after the season's first snowfall caused traffic chaos in France.  

After snowfall in Eastern and central France
After snowfall in Eastern and central France Reuters/Benoit Tessier
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A 20-year-old driver died on Thursday morning when she lost control of her car and crashed into a tree in the eastern Haut-Rhin department.

A Morrocan woman died in a coach crash caused by the snowfall on the A31 motorway in  the Haute-Marne also in the east.

And a power company employee was electrocuted while carrying out repairs in the central Puy-de-Dôme area.

Although an official weather alert was lifted in some areas on Thursday morning, 90,000 homes were still without power, mainly in eastern and central France:

  • 68,000 in the Rhône-Alpes;
  • 10,000 in Auvergne;
  • 5,000 in Burgundy.

About 1,500 employees of the ERDF electricity supply company were still working on the national grid on Thursday.

Road traffic was seriously disrupted in the southern Rhône-Alpes and school buses were interrupted in the Loire, Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme.

Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport expected flight delays and train traffic in the Rhônes-Alpes was partially affected.

 

 

 

 

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