The ongoing freeze and heavy snowfalls are continuing to cause travel disruption and interrupt power supply throughout Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On Tuesday morning, a tilting train travelling from the Croatian coastal city of Split to the capital of Zagreb derailed in the Split hinterland due to snowdrifts on the railway track. There were no injuries in the accident. Passengers resumed their trip to Zagreb aboard another train.
Inclement weather caused the cancellation of some train and ferry services and delays in public transport in the capital of Zagreb.
Schools were closed in the south and east of the country.
Local authorities stepped up activities to provide food and other necessities to and visit households with elderly people in rural areas.
From Friday to Tuesday, as many as 540 residents of Split were admitted to hospital due to bone fractures they sustained on slippery streets.
A record high number of 203 patients with bone fractures were admitted on Monday.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, machinery and hundreds of people were engaged on Tuesday in efforts to clean snowdrifts from major roads and town streets.
The state road between the capital of Sarajevo and the southern city of Mostar was closed to traffic due to heavy snow in Jablanica.
Many villages in the east of the country have been cut off for days, and food is being delivered by helicopter.
Hours-long power outages were also reported in several areas of Bosnia today, while the coastal town of Neum was without electricity for the third consecutive day.
The Siberian-style winter has so far claimed a number of lives in the two countries.
The bitter winter with temperatures down to minis 20 Celsius degrees is likely to continue until mid-February, the Croatian National Weather Service (DHMZ) said on Monday.
