Deaths in the Netherlands and Denmark, woman swept out to sea off France, and Sweden braces for storm's arrival
Rescue workers stand next to a car crushed by a falling tree near Rheibach, Germany. Photograph: Axel Vogel/Corbis
Four people died in the south of England after winds gusting up to nearly 100mph felled trees, and another four were killed on Monday in Germany, adding to two deaths at sea off the German coast on Sunday.
In Amsterdam a woman was killed and another person injured when a tree by a canal was blown over. Other injuries were reported around the city from falling debris.
In Denmark a man died after he was hit by a flying brick north of Copenhagen. In France a woman was still missing on Monday night after being swept out to sea from a cliff at Belle-Ile, Brittany.
Transport infrastructure took a battering across the continent. Sustained winds of more than 75mph caused the cancellation of 50 flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Europe's fourth largest, and there were delays at Europe's busiest port in Rotterdam.
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Storm Sweeps Europe After Battering Britain
Hurricane-strength winds topple trees, cut power supplies and cause travel chaos across northern Europe.
As a deadly storm moves from Britain to mainland Europe, a tree falls on a car in Amsterdam, killing a woman.
Large waves break against the dyke at the port of Boulogne in northern France.
People watch a boat from the shore as a storm passes over the beach in Scheveningen in the Netherlands.
Some
10 people have died in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Scandinavia
after a fatal storm that struck Britain swept eastwards to northern
Europe.
A Danish man was killed near Copenhagen by a collapsing
wall, a woman was killed by falling trees in Amsterdam and a 47-year-old
woman was found dead after being swept out to sea during a cliff walk
on Belle Ile in France.At least seven people died in Germany with falling trees killing several drivers. One man also drowned and a 66-year-old woman died when a wall collapsed on her, German media reported.
Southern Sweden was hit by torrential rain, and winds up to 84mph (136kph) blew down trees, blocking roads and bringing down power lines, leaving around than 50,000 homes without electricity.
As evening fell there were no reports of injuries in Sweden but widespread reports of property damage.
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11 dead as storm lashes northern Europe
Agence France-Presse
LONDON—At least 11 people were killed on Monday as a fierce storm tore across northern Europe, causing mass disruption to transport.
Four people were killed in Britain and three in Germany as heavy rain and high winds battered the region. The storm also claimed two victims in The Netherlands, one in France and one in Denmark.
Rough conditions at sea also forced rescuers to abandon the search for a 14-year-old boy who disappeared while playing in the surf on a southern English beach on Sunday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron described the loss of life as “hugely regrettable.”
Winds reached 99 miles (159 kilometers) per hour on the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast, according to Britain’s Met Office national weather center, while more than 500,000 homes in Britain and France were left without power.
Heavy rain and winds of 80 mph elsewhere brought down thousands of trees and left hundreds of passengers trapped in planes at Copenhagen airport.
In Britain, a 17-year-old girl died after a tree fell on the parked caravan where she was sleeping, while a 51-year-old father of three died when a tree hit his car, police said.
The bodies of a man and a woman were later found in the rubble of three houses in London that collapsed in an explosion thought to have been caused by a gas pipe being ruptured in the storm.
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