Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport protest over ice chaos

Passengers at Domodedovo faced both power cuts and cancellations

Exasperated air passengers stranded after freezing rain disrupted flights have staged protests inside at least one Moscow airport, media reports say.

The passengers occupied baggage inspection areas at Sheremetyevo, northwest of the Russian capital.
The rain, which immediately became ice on the ground, led to cancellations of 200 flights and caused power failures which shut a second airport for hours.
More than 400,000 people in the Moscow area were left without electricity.
The outage was caused by tree branches touching power lines loaded down with ice.
Bad weather also turned many streets in the city into ice rinks, with power supplies to trams and trolley buses damaged and huge traffic jams forming.
Interfax news agency said 1,350 people were taken to hospital in the Moscow area with ice-related injuries, while 27 were injured by falling trees weighed down by ice.
Food shortages Passengers on a flight from Sheremetyevo to Bangkok who had been waiting to depart for more than 24 hours staged their protest in hand luggage inspection areas in the duty free zone, after being told of further delays to their flight, Ria news agency reported.
Some banged on baskets used for personal effects, demanding attention from airport officials and representatives of the Aeroflot airline.
There were also reports of food shortages at the airport.
"What annoys people most of all is that no-one is explaining anything to them," one passenger told the agency.
The city's other main airport, Domodedovo, remained shut for more than 10 hours on Sunday, after the power supply was cut off, officials said.
Unconfirmed reports there said a group of passengers stormed the passport control zone demanding information about their flights.
Officials said the situation was returning to normal at both airports but local media said there were still power problems at Domodedovo.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu to do "everything you can and mobilise all units to ease the situation in the airports and transport".