The storm Ciara has left at least seven people dead in Europe and several injured since Sunday, causing hundreds of flight and train cancellations in its path and depriving thousands of homes of electricity.
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A man died in his car after a tree fell on a motorway in south-west London. In southern Poland, two women, 21 and 52, and a 15-year-old girl, all belonging to the same family, were killed in the collapse of a roof caused by gusts of wind near 100 km / h. In north-eastern Slovenia, a 52-year-old man died in a car crushed by a falling tree. Authorities have asked residents of the northern regions to stay at home.
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In southern Sweden, where train traffic was still disrupted on Monday morning, while thousands of homes were left without power, a boater died after capsizing his boat. A person who accompanied him is missing. A man has also died in the Czech Republic, victim in a car of a road exit blocked by an uprooted tree. Several people were also injured in this country, where the wind blew up to 180 km / h, including two teenagers in Prague when a tree fell.
In Germany, two women, one between life and death, were seriously injured by a fall from a tree in Saarbrücken and a 16-year-old boy was injured in the head by a branch in Paderborn, in the 'Where is. On the transport side, the circulation of trains on main lines, interrupted since Sunday evening throughout the country, resumed in part in the morning according to the railway company Deutsche Bahn. But the disturbances will remain numerous, the storm moving towards the south. In Frankfurt, a construction crane hit the cathedral in the city center, damaging the roof for several meters, AFP noted. In Denmark, the Öresund bridge connecting it to Sweden was closed for a few hours.
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