Six Killed By Falling Icicles In Three Days Overseas

It's another brutally cold day in the GTA in what's already been a terrible winter. But you can be thankful that we haven't had the kinds of problems with our chilly season that other countries do. Take what happened on Tuesday in the central part of Russia.

Six people have been killed in three days in separate incidents in the cities of Samara and Otradny. But the culprit isn't exactly the cold. All of them were killed when icicles hanging from tall buildings suddenly plunged to the ground and the heavy frozen water fell on pedestrians going by below.

The area is located in a place that rarely gets sun during the winter and when it finally makes its appearance in late February, layers of thick ice that have been building up on roofs during the below freezing months start to melt, break off and plunge to the street below.

It's an annual hazard for those out walking in the chill, and it's the kind of peril that makes you realize that, as bad as a GTA winter can be, there are worse places you could spend it.