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Storms in Corsica: one dead and one seriously injured in a campsite

2022-08-18T07:53:50.120Z


This accident is due to the fall of a tree on the bungalow of the two victims. One person died and another was seriously injured Thursday morning August 18 when a tree fell on their bungalow at a campsite in Sagone (Corse-du-Sud), firefighters told AFP. Corsica was placed Thursday morning and until 11:00 am in orange vigilance by Météo France, which announces " strong storms on the west coast in progress with very strong gusts ". " An exceptional gust at 224 km / h has just


One person died and another was seriously injured Thursday morning August 18 when a tree fell on their bungalow at a campsite in Sagone (Corse-du-Sud), firefighters told AFP.

Corsica was placed Thursday morning and until 11:00 am in orange vigilance by Météo France, which announces "

strong storms on the west coast in progress with very strong gusts

".

"

An exceptional gust at 224 km / h has just been measured at the Marignana station (note: about thirty kilometers from Sagone) on an exposed part of the west coast

" of the island, had announced Météo France on its Twitter account at 8:30 a.m.

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The heavy rains of Wednesday evening in the Southeast did not cause any casualties or major damage, according to the report of the firefighters in the area Thursday morning.

The Weather Channel, which places the departments of the South-East at significant risk for thunderstorms, but which has lifted the orange alert, observes that, overall, "

the stormy rains are less violent and numerous than the day before

".

*

The Weather Channel belongs to the Figaro group.

Source: lefigaro

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