The death toll worsened by the Eunice storm which is currently hitting the United Kingdom but is expected to reach the European continent.
Violent gusts of wind and powerful waves have killed at least 8 people, while connections in north-western Europe are in chaos. Hundreds of flights, trains and ferries have been canceled.
In Holland the victims are 4; In the Hague in particular, dozens of houses have been evacuated for fear of the collapse of a church tower. In Ireland, the first country affected, a 60-year-old man died in the south-east of the country, according to police. In London, a woman in her thirties was killed yesterday afternoon by a fallen tree in the car she was traveling in in the passenger seat, and a man in her fifties died near Liverpool in an accident involving debris falling on the windshield. Also, in Belgium, a 79-year-old Canadian living on a boat in the Ypres marina fell into the water while trying to recover stolen items, and lost his life. In England, on the Isle of Wight, an unprecedented gust of 196 km / h was recorded, and others more than 110 km / h inland, including at London Heathrow airport.
(Unioneonline / ss)
