Parts of Europe have been witnessing the first snowfall of the year in the past few days. The Swedish capital Stockholm was covered in snow as temperatures dropped to -4 degrees Celsius.

Similarly, Berlin too was blanketed with a thick layer of snow as more was forecast for the coming week.

Meanwhile, Ukraine reported 10 deaths due to extreme weather as storms added up to 25 cm of snow across the country.

Over the weekend, heavy snowfall and strong blizzards in Romania and Moldova left one person dead and hundreds of localities without electricity and some national roads closing down, news agency AP reported.

It added that a 40-year-old man in Moldova died on Sunday after the vehicle he was in skidded off and crashed into a tree. Moldova's national police said six road accidents had been repoted by around midday.

Romania's minister of energy Sebastian Burduja told the news agency that over 400 localities had suffered electrical outages amid adverse weather conditions on Ssunday.

With inputs from AP