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Food convoy to help snow hit Spaniards

- BY MATT DRESCH

CONVOYS carrying Covid vaccines and food will visit areas cut off after Spain’s heaviest snowfall since 1971 killed four people.

Blizzards affected 600 roads in central Spain but transport minister Jose Luis Abalos said: “Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods.”

Forecaster­s warned of dangerous conditions, with temperatur­es to fall to up to -10C and the prospect of snow turning to ice.

Volunteers helped to clear streets and get health workers to hospitals.

Two people drowned in a car when a river burst while two homeless people froze to death.

Meanwhi le, Greeks headed to beaches and parks yesterday as temperatur­es hit 23C in a rare January heatwave.

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BLIZZARD Street in Madrid

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