Czech Republic in the grip of cold front from Siberia

The Czech Republic is experiencing a bout of severe cold with nighttime lows dropping to minus 25 degrees Celsius, and day temperatures hovering around minus 10 degrees. The cold snap is due to a cold front moving across Europe from Siberia, which is expected to influence the weather in central Europe for at least another week. The sub-zero temperatures have claimed three more victims -two homeless people froze to death overnight in Prague and a sixty-three year old man is reported to have died of cold in his unheated home in Ostrava.