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February 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda At least seven people died and three others were missing after an avalanche hit the village of Restelica in southern Kosovo on Saturday, local authorities said.
Police said some 15 houses were swallowed up by the avalanche but only two were occupied at the time.
A girl, between five and seven years old, was found alive late on Saturday after residents and emergency services helped dig out the houses. She was taken to hospital.
“There are seven dead people and it is believed that three others are still missing,” Kosovo police spokesman Baki Kelani said.
More than 500 people have died in the past two weeks across Europe as temperatures plummeted in many regions close to minus 40 Celsius.
Heavy snow fell across Italy on Saturday, blanketing Rome, cutting off mountain villages and disrupting roads, railways and airports around the country.
The return within days of the heaviest snowfalls in Rome since the 1980s shut sites such as the Colosseum but gave tourists and residents another chance to see landmarks such as Saint Peter’s Square and the Trevi fountain dusted with snow.
Rome’s Fiumicino airport planned to cancel half of flights from 1600 GMT on Saturday, Italy’s civil aviation authority Enac said in a statement. Several other airports across the country were closed or reducing operations.
In parts of England, temperatures plunged to around 0F overnight Friday, the Telegraph newspaper reported. A recording by an amateur weatherman of -1.1F was the lowest thermometer reading in Surrey since 1947, the Telegraph said.
This article includes reporting by Reuters and msnbc.com staff.
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