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7,000 homes were without power in Sweden and Finland with temperatures set to fall to -40C in Scandinavia
Swiss traffic police reported 50 road accidents in six hours in Bern while one young motorist died in Germany
Cold is expected to get worse with Switzerland warning of avalanches and Spain taking emergency measures
Europe was in the grip of snow chaos today as power went out in Sweden and Finland, footage emerged of looters ransacking a food truck in Spain and one person died as cars swerved off ice-covered roads in Germany.
In Madrid, footage showed dozens of looters emptying a lorry full of vegetables, yoghurts and milkshakes after it was stranded in the heavy snow in the Spanish capital, with detectives today trying to identify the culprits.