At least 13 dead from the strong storm in Europe: "In five minutes the end of the world came"

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Two girls and three adults died Thursday

in Austria, hit by downed trees in a thunderstorm that caused at least

, two of them seriously, Austrian public television 'ORF' reported.

A front of electrical storms and

moved through

from west to east on Thursday afternoon, leaving great destruction in its wake.

In the most affected area so far, a recreation area around the Sankt Andrä lake in the southern province of Carinthia, the sudden storm surprised many families who were enjoying one of the hottest days of the year.

In that place, the storm lasted about ten minutes, and, in just a few seconds, the lethal gust that felled numerous trees, killing two girls aged four and eight, and injuring another thirteen people, five of them also minors. , said the governor of the district of Wolfsberg, Georg Fejan, at a press conference.

Much of the region

the mayor of the nearby town of Wolfsberg, Hannes Primus, wrote on social media.

According to police sources, a felled tree was also the cause of the death of three people in the town of Gaming, in the eastern region of Lower Austria, whose identity has not yet been clarified.

Thunderstorms had already caused problems on roads in Carinthia and the adjoining Styria region, where downed trees and power outages forced

.

In addition, a large-scale failure of the railway power supply

, leaving numerous passengers stranded, without the state train company, ÖBB, being able to estimate how long the service interruption will last, which also affects to East Tyrol.

In Styria, where some

power, the storm and power outages also affected the

in Spielberg.

There, the press conference for Spaniard Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V), eight-time motorcycling world champion, had to be interrupted.

Meanwhile, in

,

in Corsica due to the storms that have shaken the French island early in the morning with

and that have also caused

, four of them very serious.

These figures, which are higher than those that the authorities had given in the middle of the afternoon, have been communicated in statements to the media by the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in an emergency trip to Corsica.

In addition, the death toll could grow even higher because the rescue services are trying to verify the

.

Darmanin, who went accompanied by the nationalist president of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni, to a campsite in the town of Le Sagone, where a 13-year-old girl died from a falling tree, explained that they still do not have "news from all the people that were in the sea and that evidently have to be rescued or protected".

The minister indicated that in the late afternoon

(which has a population of 340,000 inhabitants)

, although their number had been significantly reduced compared to the 47,000 that were in the morning, after the outbreak of the storms.

The prefectures (government delegations) of the two Corsican departments have decided to evacuate several campsites due to the risk of extraordinary weather phenomena occurring again next night.

The reason is that the meteorological services have put the entire island on

.

Simeoni, who spoke of

, received a call from French President Emmanuel Macron, who expressed his support for him and guaranteed the mobilization of rescue services.

For its part, bad weather has left

.

The strong storm of wind and rain hits especially the northern and central regions of the country.

The deceased, a man and a woman, have lost their lives due to the fall of two trees in Tuscany, the first in the town of Lucca and the second in Carrara.

The 54-year-old man was felling a tree on private property when another tree fell on him, while the woman was crushed in the street and the national emergency services tried to revive her, but she died shortly after. local media reported.

The storm has left many injured, including a serious person who was trapped in a caravan and another who was dragged by a tree and had to be transferred to a hospital in Versilia, also in Tuscany.

In addition to Tuscany, other affected regions have been Piedmont, Liguria and Emilia-Romagna, where storms and

have caused flooding and ripped off roofs, infrastructure and downed trees.

"I thought it was a whirlpool and, in five minutes, the end of the world came," an inhabitant of Settepolesini, affected by the rains, told 'El Corriere della Sera'.

In several cities in these regions, traffic has had to be temporarily cut off due to fallen trees and rivers of water, and, in some cases, such as Florence, tram circulation has also been interrupted.

In

has had to be cordoned off

and the tourists who visited it have been evicted after several fragments of the bell tower broke off and fell into the square.

The Department of Civil Protection has decided to meet its crisis unit to analyze the situation and has warned that

, and may affect other regions such as Umbria, Las Marches, Lazio, Abruzzo and Sardinia, "where Scattered storms may develop, with showers of rain or hail, electrical activity and gusts of wind.

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