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Storm Aurora: four dead in Poland, transport and electricity disrupted in northern Europe

2021-10-21T19:10:58.051Z


One person was killed when a pickup truck was thrown off the road while a worker died in a collapsed wall of a house


After France, the Aurora storm still traces a destructive path in Europe.

On Thursday, it killed four people in Poland and caused significant damage in Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, after traveling overnight in the north of France, where disruptions persist on some railway lines.

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Storm Aurora: 250,000 homes without electricity, extensive damage

Four people died and six were injured in Poland on Thursday, due to strong winds in the south and southwest of the territory, said firefighters, who recorded 3,200 interventions until early afternoon.

The four deaths all occurred in the region of Lower Silesia (southwest): one person was killed when a van was thrown from the road while a worker died in the collapse of the wall of a house under construction.

Mini tornadoes

In addition, “two people died” following a fall of a tree on the car in which they were, said the spokesman of the fire brigade, Karol Kierzkowski, quoted by the Polish press agency PAP.

The national meteorological service has issued a warning of high winds in almost all but two regions of Poland.

In the Netherlands, mini-tornadoes have been reported, leaving four injured.

Images from Barendrecht, near Rotterdam, show damaged roofs, destroyed garden sheds and overturned trampolines in one of the streets.

"We can see that it was intense", testified the deputy mayor, Nico Bults, on the public television channel NOS, evoking an episode "impressive and of course frightening for the inhabitants".

KLM cancels more than 60 flights

The weather services have triggered the code yellow, the third highest level of alert, and according to NOS, the Dutch company KLM has had to cancel more than 60 flights, due to both high winds and maintenance work on a runway landing.

In Germany, the storm, called Ignatz, blew winds of up to 100 km / h, from the early hours of the day, over a large part of its territory.

In the Center and East, at least 50,000 households are deprived of electricity, in the Länder (regional states) of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia.

In these three regions, train traffic was suspended in the early afternoon.

It was greatly disturbed in the rest of Germany, the national company Deutsche Bahn calling for postponing the trips.

In the Czech Republic, the storm that swept through western regions left 270,000 homes without electricity and caused transport disruptions due to fallen trees on several roads and railways.

The wind also damaged roofs and poles, while at Prague airport, passengers of some planes had to stay on board, longer than expected, because the wind prevented approaching the disembarkation stairs. .

Source: leparis

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