Some 120 Romanian villages are cut off from the outside world by snow, classes have been cancelled and more than 200 train services suspended, the ministry said.

The border stations at Nagylak, Ártánd and Gyula-Varsand have been closed to trucks weighing more than seven and a half tons due to the extraordinary snowfall."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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