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French Alps hit by massive snowfall, thousands of cars stranded (PHOTOS) \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Massive snowfall, aggravated by strong winds and ice in the French Alps, has trapped thousands of holidaymakers, with up to 15,000 people forced to spend Saturday night in emergency accommodation centers in the Savoie region in southeastern France.<\/p>\n

Conditions remained difficult on Sunday, a spokesman for the Savoie prefecture said. Authorities set up shelters in a dozen towns for stranded tourists in the area.<\/p>\n

The chaos on Saturday left nearly 2,000 passengers stranded at Chambery airport in southeastern France. A spokesman for the Savoy region, which comprises roughly the territory of the Western Alps between Lake Geneva in the north and Dauphin\u00e9 in the south, said: “We have not estimated the number of people who spent the [Saturday] night in their cars.”<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the prefecture, a number of travelers were taken care of in emergency shelters that became almost 100 percent full. “There were 83 shelters open,”<\/em>\u00a0Transport Minister Alain Vidal said on Sunday on Europe 1.<\/p>\n

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