At least nine people died on Friday in Germany and other countries due to the hurricane Zeynep.

In the Lower Saxony municipality of Wurster Nordseekueste, a man fell from a roof during the storm and died.

The 68-year-old tried to repair the damaged roof of a stable on Saturday night, the police said.

He broke through the roof and fell about ten meters down.

According to the police, a driver died on Friday evening near Altenberge in North Rhine-Westphalia when he crashed his car into a tree lying across the road.

The trapped 56-year-old died at the scene of the accident.

The WDR had previously reported about it.

At about the same time, a man was driving his car in nearby Saerbeck when the vehicle overturned, according to the police.

The 33-year-old also died at the scene of the accident.

The cause of this accident was initially unclear, the car was probably hit by a gust of wind, said a spokesman for the fire department in the evening.

A police spokesman could not confirm this when asked early on Saturday morning.

The man would be the tenth victim of the hurricane.

"Zeynep" has caught Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein

In the previous hurricane "Ylenia" at least three drivers in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt died in weather-related accidents: Two were killed by falling trees, a third died when his trailer got into the oncoming lane in the storm and an accident occurred.

In the Netherlands, three people were killed by falling trees, including a cyclist.

Britain also reported three fatalities.

In London, the highest red warning level was declared for the first time.

In Ireland, a man died as a result of the hurricane.

At least eleven people were injured in France.

In the north of the country around 130,000 households were without electricity in the evening.

The storm "Zeynep" also hit Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, but probably caused less damage than feared.

Fire brigades and police reported numerous operations by Saturday morning, but initially it was mostly property damage and fallen trees.

During the evening, the German Weather Service measured wind forces between 9 and 11 in Kiel, Hamburg, Sylt and Helgoland, and a hurricane gust of 143.3 kilometers per hour was recorded in Büsum.

A very severe storm surge occurred in Hamburg.

The water level at the St. Pauli gauge reached 3.75 meters above the mean high water level at around 5.30 a.m. on Saturday.

That is probably the apex, said a spokesman for the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency.

From 3.50 meters above mean high water, one speaks of a very severe storm surge.

It's supposed to stay stormy until Monday

A 55-meter construction crane collapsed in Bremen.

The crane crashed into an office building that was under construction during the night, said a fire department spokesman.

"It looks devastating." A truck driving past was also hit by the crane.

The driver was unharmed.

The debris is now blocking the surrounding roads.

The removal of the crane will take until the beginning of next week.

According to a police spokesman, it only became noticeably quieter on the coast in the Aurich and Leer areas of Lower Saxony from 3 a.m. onwards.

A spokesman for the fire brigade there counted a total of almost 500 missions by three o'clock.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the Emmerich Rhine bridge is closed until further notice.

The reason for this are fallen scaffolding parts that protrude into the roadway, the police said early on Saturday morning.

It should remain stormy at least until Monday, according to the DWD.

"It just doesn't calm down," said one meteorologist.

According to the experts, the current storm situation should focus on the northern half of Germany until Saturday morning.

However, the DWD had also issued severe weather warnings for hurricane-force gusts for more southern regions - parts of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and for northern regions of Bavaria.

Rail traffic remains restricted

Rail traffic in northern Germany and in the northern parts of North Rhine-Westphalia is still severely restricted as a result of the storm.

As reported by Deutsche Bahn in Berlin on Saturday morning, there are still no long-distance trains in the affected regions.

This applies to connections north of Dortmund, Hanover and Berlin and between Berlin and Halle (Saale)/Leipzig.

Individual trains run only on the high-speed line between Cologne and Frankfurt.

Regional transport is also still failing across the board, the railways reported.

Before traffic can be resumed, extensive reconnaissance trips are required, it said.

"We therefore assume that long-distance Deutsche Bahn operations on the routes mentioned can only be gradually resumed from 9 a.m. on Saturday morning at the earliest," said a customer information.

In areas with severe storm damage, however, a much later resumption is also possible.