The toll of the violent storms that hit Corsica on Thursday morning rose to six dead, twenty injured, including four in “very serious” condition.
Late in the morning, the Haute-Corse prefecture announced the death of a 46-year-old man in Calvi (Haute-Corse), victim of a tree falling on his bungalow. In Corse-du-Sud, a 13-year-old girl, hit by a falling tree, and a 72-year-old woman, by the fall of the roof of a straw hut, also lost their lives. Later in the day, the deaths of a fisherman in Girolata (Corse-du-Sud) and a kayaker in Erbalunga (Haute-Corse), were announced.
Corsica was placed Thursday morning and until 11:00 am in orange vigilance by Météo-France, which had announced to “strong thunderstorms in progress on the west coast with very strong gusts“.
