PARIS (AP) — Record-breaking winds in France and across much of Western Europe left at least seven people dead and injured others as Storm Ciarán swept...
PARIS — Record-breaking winds in France and across much of Western Europe left at least seven people dead and injured others asswept through the continent Thursday. The storm devastated homes, causing travel mayhem and cut power to a vast number of people.
About 1.2 million French households were left without electricity on Thursday, electrical utility Enedis said in a statement. That includes about half of the homes in Brittany, the Atlantic peninsula hardest hit by Ciarán. Enedis said it would deploy 3,000 workers to restore power when conditions allowed.
Two people were killed by falling branches in central Ghent, Belgium, including a 5-year-old child who was taken to hospital but died a few hours later. A 3-year-old was slightly injured in the same incident, said the Ghent prosecutor’s office in a statement. Another branch hit three German tourists in the central Ghent Citadel Park, killing a 64-year-old woman instantly. Her daughter was seriously injured but the father was unhurt.
Hundreds of schools stayed closed in the southwest England coastal communities of Cornwall and Devon, as downed trees and flooding hindered morning commutes all across the southeast. Partridge said the system would continue to weaken over the next 12 hours. But a lot of rain associated with the storm was still to fall, he cautioned, singling out North Wales, the West Midlands and East Coast for downpours.
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