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VIENNA — Five people were killed Thursday in two separate incidents in Austria after falling trees. The storm that hit the northern coast of the Mediterranean earlier in the day reached the Alpine country in the afternoon.
A 4-year-old and her two 8-year-old girls died after a tree collapsed by a lake near the town of St Andrae in southern Austria, near the border with Slovenia, police said. Stated.
The storm, with gusts of over 100 kmh (62 mph), appears to have spooked swimmers cooling off in the lake on a hot day, but in Italy early in the day the storm cut down trees. killed two people. there.
A severe storm caused power outages and the Austrian state railway company OBB suspended all train services in many southern provinces of Styria and Carinthia on the Slovenian-Italian border. has been forced to stop, OBB said in a statement. statement. Many roads in Styria and Carinthia were also closed, according to the drivers' group.
A police spokesman said he also killed three people in the area of the town of Game in Lower Austria, a province surrounding Vienna, but gave no further details. I didn't. It is unclear whether the tree was struck by lightning or by strong winds. (Reporting by Francois Murphy, Editing by Grant McCool)
