Arctic conditions sweeping Europe have caused more deaths in Ukraine, Bulgaria and Poland.
In southern Bulgaria, five people drowned as torrential rains broke a dam wall and submerged a village beneath two and a half metres of icy water .
Overnight in Poland temperatures dropped to minus 30C.
Power supplies are becoming a problem in several countries.
A European Union official has denied there is an emergency as a result of a drop in Russian gas supplies to member states.
But in Italy - where 60,000 households are without power - the economic development minister has described the situation as critical.
The Tuscan towns of Arezzo and Siena have been without power for days.
