Two children died this Thursday in southern Austria as a result of trees felled by gale force winds from a thunderstorm that caused at least 15 injuries, two of them serious, Austrian public television ORF reported.
The victims were registered in the city this afternoon Saint Andrew and the lake of the same name in the southern province of Carinthia, where the Red Cross and the fire brigade were also looking probably missedsince the clothes of unknown persons were found floating in the water.
Thunderstorms had already caused problems on the roads in Carinthia and neighboring Styria fallen trees and power outages forced traffic to be closed some motorway sections and tunnels.
The front of severe storms crosses Austria from west to east with wind peaks of up to 139 kilometers per hour and will probably also reach Vienna, reported the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) of the Central European country.
A large contingent of firefighters and the Red Cross were deployed Local recreation area at Sankt-Andrä-See, so far the most affected, where many trees have fallen.
Two ambulances, nine ambulances, two helicopters, a ten-person crisis intervention team, as well as the police and fire brigade were deployed.
Much of the region “looks like a battlefield after the violent storm,” the mayor of the nearby town of Wolfsberg, Hannes Primus, told the Austrian agency APA. EFEgreen