PARIS (AP) Violent thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds left at least seven dead Thursday in France and Italy, uprooting trees in Tuscany and on the
The extreme weather produced 140mph gusts, leaving 45,000 households without power on Corsica and killing two girls aged four and eight in Austria after a tree toppled over.
Storms with gusts of up to 139mph (224km/h) hit the Mediterranean island of Corsica and sections of Italy, killing seven people and injuring at least a dozen more.
Storms in recent days have slammed Western European countries after a summer of extreme weather, while neighboring countries in Central and Eastern Europe are still suffering exceptional heat waves and drought.