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The Spanish government is expected to send convoys carrying the COVID-19 vaccine and food supplies on Sunday to areas cut off by Storm Filomena, which brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across central Spain and killed four people.

In the Spanish capital Madrid, citizens and civil servants joined forces in clearing roads that lead to hospitals.

Madrid officials said rescuers reached 1,500 people trapped in cars and the priority now is to prevent the formation of ice.

Forecasters warned of dangerous conditions in the coming days, with temperatures expected to fall to up to -10 C next week, and the prospect of snow turning to ice and damaged trees falling.

Despite the efforts made by troops to help clean the tarmac of Madrid's main international airport, planes were unable to fly and the operator said it would not re-open until Sunday afternoon at the earliest, when flights would resume gradually.

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