Three people died in severe storms on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.
As the prefecture announced on Thursday morning, a 13-year-old girl was hit by a tree at a campsite in Sagone on the west coast of the island.
French media reported that the tree had fallen onto a camper van.
A 72-year-old woman died on a beach south of Sagone after the roof of a beach hut fell on her vehicle, according to the prefecture.
France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote on Twitter in the morning of a third death.
According to the French news agency AFP, this was a 46-year-old man.
Darmanin wanted to travel to the island in the afternoon.
45,000 households without electricity
Darmanin wrote that gusts of more than 200 kilometers per hour had blown over Corsica.
According to the prefecture, twelve people were injured in the storms in the south of the island, one of them seriously.
45,000 households were without electricity on the island.
There were also violent storms in other parts of France.
Videos showed streets in Marseille and nearby Cassis flooded late Wednesday night.