A 2-month-old baby died on Tuesday afternoon due to bad weather in Uccle, Brussels region. A branch fell on a car.
A tragic incident occurred at Wolvendael Park in Uccle on Tuesday afternoon. Mayor Boris Delius confirmed that a child lost his life due to the bad weather.
“This is a terrible tragedy as it relates to the death of a two-month-old infant who was being carried in a pram by his mother after a branch was said to have fallen on the pram.” Indicates the mayor. “The park was closed from 5pm and apparently, the tragedy happened between 4pm and 5pm. The weather forecast announced a storm from 5pm. However, it started at 4pm. I think first of all the family of this child. At this stage, we cannot say anything more about this tragedy.”
A witness tells us what he saw at the park: “The mother told me ‘My baby is not well. He was a few months old.’ I started crying. I saw he was dead.”
The witness called the ambulance, but no one answered. The only solution is to find a car to go to the hospital. “From what we know, the person went to the clinic where the death was reported, for the rest, investigations are ongoing.” Boris Delić concludes.
Ukkal Municipality is most affected by bad weather
Due to the bad weather, regional authorities banned entry to parks, nature reserves and forests in Brussels from 5:00pm on Tuesday.
According to Brussels firefighters, the city of Uccle was worst hit by the bad weather on Tuesday. “We have indeed suffered a great loss, but apart from this tragic accident, it is particularly material,” the mayor of Uccle added. “Several tree branches fell onto roads or cars, and part of the roof of a municipal car park collapsed due to the heavy rain.”
Brussels firefighters had already carried out 86 interventions on Wednesday morning, according to their spokesman Walter Dereeuw. “They related to 46 different objects blown away by the wind, 22 uprooted trees and 18 interventions for basements or flooded streets. There are still around 200 interventions pending, but these are undoubtedly duplicates or flood problems that are occurring and are being reabsorbed on their own.”
“Our teams were also able to respond to all other emergency calls that were not storm-related, such as fires, blocked elevators or ambulance transports”The spokesperson said. “For this, we were able to rely on five teams of Red Cross volunteers who replaced our firefighters in the ambulances, so that we could deploy as many people as possible to deal with the bad weather.”
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