Storm Sweeps Europe After Battering Britain

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 29 Oktober 2013 | 12.15

Some 10 people have died in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Scandinavia after a fatal storm that struck Britain swept eastwards to northern Europe.

A Danish man was killed near Copenhagen by a collapsing wall, a woman was killed by falling trees in Amsterdam and a 47-year-old woman was found dead after being swept out to sea during a cliff walk on Belle Ile in France.

At least seven people died in Germany with falling trees killing several drivers. One man also drowned and a 66-year-old woman died when a wall collapsed on her, German media reported.

BELGIUM-EUROPE-WEATHER Thirteen floor high scaffolding comes down in Merksem, Antwerpen

Hurricane-strength winds cut power supplies and forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and train journeys across the continent.

Southern Sweden was hit by torrential rain, and winds up to 84mph (136kph) blew down trees, blocking roads and bringing down power lines, leaving around than 50,000 homes without electricity.

As evening fell there were no reports of injuries in Sweden but widespread reports of property damage.

NETHERLANDS-EUROPE-WEATHER An uprooted tree falls on a houseboat in Amsterdam

All passenger trains remained halted in southern Sweden until the storm passed.

Heavy winds also swept across the low-lying Netherlands, shutting down all train traffic to Amsterdam and ripping several houseboats off their moorings.

Winds of more than 93mph (150kph) were recorded on one of the islands off the northern Dutch coast.

A ferry carrying 1,000 people from Newcastle was unable to dock in the port of Ijmuiden in northern Netherlands and returned to sea, RTL television said.

Fifty flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport were cancelled and Rotterdam Port, Europe's busiest, said incoming and outgoing vessels were delayed.

In Belle Ile, an island off France's northwestern Brittany coast, high winds generated waves of five to six metres, local authorities said.

Winds topping 100kph struck the north and northwest of the country felling trees, whipping up seas and cutting power supplies to around 75,000 homes, according to the ERDF electricity distribution company.


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