61.   Police reported dozens of mainly minor accidents because of bad driving conditions, and there were major traffic jams in the Hamburg region.

62.   Road traffic too was badly disrupted in the Berlin-Brandenburg region Friday, with dozens of mainly minor accidents because of heavy snow and ice, police said.

63.   Since then a series of more minor accidents has killed eight people.

64.   The atomic energy authorities described the incident as a minor accident caused by human error, the report said.