2023-11-02 20:11:11
Two deaths and extensive damage. After crossing the northwest of the country with winds that reached 200 km/h, storm Ciaran reached the north of France and England this Thursday afternoon. A fifty-year-old truck driver was killed in Aisne by a tree that fell on the cabin of his truck after a strong gust. A 70-year-old man died after falling from the balcony of his house in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), this Thursday noon.
The second “fell to his death after being struck by the shutters of the house following violent winds,” said the Ministry of the Interior. According to firefighters, the man fell from a balcony from a height of 5 meters and was found on the ground with a shutter and a guardrail. “The man apparently fell due to a gust of wind while he was closing his shutter,” said Le Havre public prosecutor Bruno Dieudonné. According to the daily Paris-Normandya violent gust would have swept away the balcony railing, causing the septuagenarian to fall.
Nine more departments on orange alert
“The depression and storm Ciaran are gradually shifting northward and gradually moving away from our country,” Météo-France forecaster François Gourand said during a press briefing Thursday afternoon. The biggest […] happened. We are arriving at more classic phenomena in the coming days,” he added.
This Thursday at 6 p.m., only nine departments remained on orange alert for risks linked to wind, storms, rain and waves and submersion. At 3 p.m., 820,000 homes were still without electricity in France, according to the president of Enedis, Marianne Laigneau.
Ciaran led to at least five other deaths in Europe caused by falling trees: two in Belgium, including a 5-year-old child, one in Spain, in the center of Madrid, one in Germany and one in the Netherlands.
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