Strong winds cause damage, disruptions in western Europe
The Hindu
France’s national weather service maintained storm warnings on Thursday in the country’s northeastern corner that borders Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg.
A quarter of a million French homes were without electricity on Thursday and trains were halted from Normandy to the Paris region after powerful winds swept across swaths of northern France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Local media reported that four people were injured in the Dutch town of Barendrecht, on the southern edge of Rotterdam, as strongly gusting winds ripped tiles off the roofs and uprooted trees in a residential neighborhood in the early hours of the morning.
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