{"id":75845,"date":"2022-02-19T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75845"},"modified":"2022-02-19T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T16:10:25","slug":"storm-eunice-death-toll-climbs-to-13-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=75845","title":{"rendered":"Storm Eunice: Death toll climbs to 13 in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> Storm Eunice killed at least nine people in Europe on Friday, pummelling Britain with record-breaking winds and forcing millions to take shelter as it disrupted flights, trains and ferries across Western Europe.<\/p>\n

London was eerily empty after the British capital was placed under its first ever “red” weather warning, meaning there was “danger to life”. By nightfall, police there said a woman in her 30s had died after a tree fell on a car she was a passenger in.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile a man in his 50s was also killed in northwest England after debris struck the windscreen of a vehicle he was travelling in, according to Merseyside Police.<\/p>\n

Beyond Britain, falling trees killed three people in the Netherlands and a man in his 60s in southeast Ireland, while a Canadian man aged 79 died in Belgium, according to officials in each country.<\/p>\n

A motorist was killed when their car crashed into a tree that had fallen across a road near Adorp in the Netherlands' northern province of Groningen.<\/p>\n

And in Germany, a motorist died after his car was hit by a tree near the town of Altenberge.<\/p>\n

Dozens of homes were evacuated in The Hague amid fears a church steeple could collapse. Footage showed the steeple wobbling and a large piece of debris falling on a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: Storm Eunice killed at least nine people in Europe on Friday, pummelling Britain with record-breaking winds and forcing millions to take shelter as it disrupted flights, trains and ferries across Western Europe. London was eerily empty after the British capital was placed under its first ever “red” weather warning, meaning there was “danger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":75846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n