On the Spanish holiday island of Majorca, a woman was killed in a heavy storm by a palm tree. An eyewitness told the "Mallorca newspaper" that she had been hit by the tree on her head.
The disaster occurred on Sunday near the cathedral in the capital Palma, as the local newspaper "Diario de Mallorca" said, citing the authorities. Several people had tried, according to "Mallorca newspaper" in vain to help the woman. Resuscitation attempts by paramedics were also in vain.
Flooding and power outages
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wrote of a "terrible message from the Balearic Islands" and expressed his condolences to the family of the dead. The palm trees in the region have been recently reviewed, the media quoted infrastructure councilor Angélica Pastor. Now the trees should be inspected again.
In Nice, France, a senior citizen was killed by the storm. The body of the 71-year-old was found on Monday at the property behind her house. She could be salvaged after a landslide on Sunday only dead, as the rescue workers announced. Due to heavy rain, a protective wall had given way, tons of earth fell on the property.
The passage of the violent autumn storm "Amélie" has also led to serious damage in other countries. According to Enedis, on the French Atlantic coast, some 140,000 households were temporarily without electricity. There, as well as in the northern Italian region of Liguria, numerous streets and houses were submerged by heavy rains, trees were uprooted. It was snowing in the mountainous areas of Piedmont.
Storm depression "Amélie" had caused the weather service Météo France to wind speeds of 163 kilometers per hour during the night. This value was measured at Cap Ferret southwest of Bordeaux. Wind speeds of 139 kilometers per hour were measured on the Ile de Ré further north. Even in the interior of Bordeaux, the wind had a strength of 121 kilometers per hour.