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 by AFP Staff Writers Madrid (AFP) Aug 31, 2022
A 20-month-old girl died after being hit by a hailstone during an intense storm in northeastern Spain, local officials said Wednesday. The hailstone "fell on her head" and "she did not survive," Carme Vall, a city councillor in the Catalan town of La Bisbal de l'Emporda, told radio RAC1. "The hail only fell for 10 minutes, but it was 10 minutes of terror," she said, adding the hailstones that had fallen in the area were up to 11 centimetres (four inches) wide. "Only hailstones were falling, hardly any rain." The toddler was rushed to the Josep Trueta Hospital in the nearby city of Girona but died overnight from her injuries, the hospital said in a statement. Catalonia's weather office said the hailstones that fell in the area near Spain's border with France were the largest in 20 years. Images broadcast on Spanish television showed several cars with shattered windshields or dents in their roofs from the hailstones. The stained glass windows of the town's church were also shattered by the impact of the hailstones, photos released by the town hall showed.
Death toll in Austria storms rises to 5; Two killed in Tuscany storm Vienna, Austria (AFP) Aug 18, 2022 Five people, including two children, died in Thursday as storms wreaked havoc in Austria, according to the country's news agency and officials. Three people died due to a falling tree in Lower Austria state, news agency APA reported. In the southern state of Carinthia, two children were killed and about a dozen other people injured at a small lake when the storm also uprooted several trees there, said Red Cross spokeswoman for the state Melanie Reiter. Elsewhere in the region, roofs were blo ... read more
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