By AFP

Photo: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT

Icy temperatures plunged swathes of Europe into a second day of travel chaos, with weather-related accidents causing six deaths from the continent's bitterest cold snap this winter so far.

Five of those deaths since the mercury dropped on Monday (Paris Time) were in France alone, while a woman died in Bosnia as heavy snow and rain sparked floods and power outages across the Balkans.

Paris's two main airports, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly, were to cancel many flights early Wednesday (Paris Time) to allow ground crews to clear snow from runways and de-ice planes.

At Charles de Gaulle, 40 perc

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