Swedish snow leaves 1,000 cars trapped on main E22 road
Rescuers worked through the night to free people stuck on the main E22 road in the Skane area of southern Sweden.
Many of those trapped were evacuated by rescue teams and told to return to their cars later.
The travel chaos occurred amid plummeting winter temperatures across the Nordic countries.
Extreme cold weather has hit parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway, and snow storms in Denmark have left drivers trapped on a motorway near Aarhus since Wednesday.
The Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka weather station in northern Sweden recorded its coldest night for 25 years on Tuesday night, with temperatures dropping to -43.6C.
Rescuers said all people travelling by car had been evacuated and only lorry drivers remained in their vehicles by Thursday morning.
The disruption on the main E22 began at about 09:00 local time (08:00 GMT) on Wednesday when snow made the E22 impassable in both directions between Horby and Kristianstad. Hundreds of cars ground to a halt in snowdrifts.
"It is total chaos," police spokesperson Evelina Olsson said.
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