A girl in Lower Austria was fatally injured by a falling tree in storm weather.
That is what the police said.
The four-year-old was hiking with her grandmother when the tree toppled in a gust of wind and fell on her.
The 72-year-old and her other two grandchildren were hit by branches.
The hiking trail in the Scheibbs district was released again at the time and the strong wind was no longer to be expected, said a police spokesman.
There was another incident in Tyrol: A twelve-year-old was also hit by a falling tree on Friday evening.
The girl was slightly injured, it said.
The mother had heard a scream and then discovered the daughter under the 20 centimeter thick tree trunk.
Hurricane-like winds and heavy rains triggered numerous emergency operations in parts of Austria on Saturday, mostly due to fallen trees and minor floods.
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