Snow, freezing cold hammer central and southern Italy [1]

Gazetta del Sud - 12/10/12

Schools and public offices close, body found in burned camper

Rome, December 10 - Southern and central Italy was in the grip of sub-zero temperatures and snowstorms Monday which caused schools and courts to close as well as forcing the evacuation of a hotel in Sicily. During the night, temperatures in parts of Italy's central regions went well below freezing, dropping as low as -9 in the Gran Sasso natural park in the Abruzzo region, and heavy snow fell on towns including earthquake-stricken Aquila.

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