Heavy snow leaves one dead, 300,000 homes without power in France

PARIS: Heavy snowfall across a large swath of southeast France has left one person dead and cut power to some 300,000 homes, with icy conditions snarling train and road traffic Friday .

"It's an exceptional situation because the snow is heavily concentrated in a single area, which is why we have significant damage to our power lines," said the spokesman, Robin Devogelaere. Up to 30cm of snow had fallen at higher elevations near the Alps in less than 24 hours, and 15cm was reported at the Lyon airport.The Meteo France weather agency had lifted travel warnings for much of the area by Friday morning, though maintained alerts for snow and black ice in the Saone-et-Loire department.

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