Ukraine's death toll from cold spell reaches 151

Health admiral say 151 bodies accept died in the Ukraine during Eastern Europe's record-breaking algid spell, with booze consistently a accidental factor.The bloom admiral said Thursday that about 4,000 others accept been ailing with hypothermia and frostbite.Emergency admiral say in 90 percent of cases, bodies died because they were beneath the access of alcohol, which increases the accident of hypothermia and about decreases a person's adeptness to feel and acknowledge to the cold.The algid spell has prompted authorities to abutting nurseries, schools and colleges beyond the country.Heavy snowfalls accept additionally acquired ability outages and trapped hundreds of cartage on motorways in southern Ukraine, as able-bodied as several ships in the Sea of Azov.Authorities in Russia said 205 bodies accept died this year in the frigid cold, while Poland had 107. Seven bodies accept died in Romania during a 24 hour aeon this week, bringing the absolute there to 86 deaths. In Lithuania, there accept been 23 deaths. Deaths were additionally appear in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia.