Greece declares emergency in flood-hit north
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An abandoned car is seen in a flooded field near to the town of Harmanly, 275 km ( 170 miles) east of the capital Sofia, Bulgaria on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding Bisser village and killing at least eight people, with 10 others still missing, authorities said. Civil defense chief Nikolai Nikolov said a 2.5-meter (8-foot) flood hit 700 houses in the village of Bisser, near the Greek border, after the dam on the Ivanovo reservoir collapsed. (AP Photo)
An abandoned car is seen in a flooded field near to the town of Harmanly, 275 km ( 170 miles) east of the capital Sofia, Bulgaria on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding Bisser village and killing at least eight people, with 10 others still missing, authorities said. Civil defense chief Nikolai Nikolov said a 2.5-meter (8-foot) flood hit 700 houses in the village of Bisser, near the Greek border, after the dam on the Ivanovo reservoir collapsed. (AP Photo)
A man sorts through the remains of his home in the village of Bisser, 288 km ( aprox. 180 miles) east of the capital Sofia, on Monday, Feb 6, 2012. A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding Bisser village and killing at least eight people, with 10 others still missing, authorities said. Civil defense chief Nikolai Nikolov said a 2.5-meter (8-foot) flood hit 700 houses in the village of Bisser, near the Greek border, after the dam on the Ivanovo reservoir collapsed. (AP Photo/)
A view of the Cannaregio channel, partially iced because of unusually low temperatures, in Venice, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Schools will be closed in Rome on Tuesday, as Italy copes with unusually heavy snow for the Mediterranean country. So far, ten deaths have been linked to winter weather, including two people who were crushed under a collapsed roof south of Rome, and a 91-year-old woman in the northeast port of Trieste who was knocked down by strong winds. In the north, rescuers had to pluck people from their homes, as piles of snow reached 3 meters (10 feet) in some areas. In Milan, Italy's fashion and financial capital, temperatures fell to minus 12 Celsius (10 Fahrenheit) on Monday, and the authorities opened a section of the city subway to shelter some 100 homeless people. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)
Passengers look through a window of a bus during a heavy rainfall in central Athens,on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Authorities in northeastern Greece announced the voluntary evacuation of people in flood-stricken villages on the Turkish border. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Passengers are seen through a window of a bus during a heavy rainfall in central Athens on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Authorities in northeastern Greece announced the voluntary evacuation of people in flood-stricken villages on the Turkish border. (AP Photo / Petros Giannakouris)
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) ? A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, officials said.
In Poland, meanwhile, the big freeze that is holding the rest of Europe in its icy grip killed another six people in the last 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said Tuesday that three other people died of asphyxiation with carbon monoxide from heaters they were using to heat their homes. The temperatures in Poland have plunged as low as minus 32 C (minus 26 F) since the freeze began.
In Greece, rescuers had to extract five elderly people Tuesday from their flooded homes after the river Evros burst its banks near the contry's northeastern border with Bulgaria. Sevaral elderly residents were also evacuated overnight from another three villages in the area.
Evros, which enters Greece from Bulgaria and runs along the border with Turkey, is swollen after days of heavy rainfall, compounded by a burst dam in southern Bulgaria.
The dam on Bulgaria's Ivanovo Reservoir collapsed on Monday, sending a torrent into the nearby village of Bisser that killed eight people and flooded 700 houses.
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