Two killed, 12 injured as storms hit France’s Corsica

The French island suffered from hail, heavy rain and highly effective winds which killed two folks and injured 12 others.

The Iles Sanguinaires' lighthouse is pictured as robust winds and waves hit the coast on the island of Corsica [File: Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP]

Two folks have been killed and 12 others injured when robust winds and hail hit the French island of Corsica, whereas storms have left about 1,000 households with out electrical energy in mainland France.

Components of France have had extra rain in only a few hours than in the entire latest months, with substantial flooding a end result after weeks of heatwaves and drought degraded the soil’s capability to soak up water.

Corsica, a key vacationer vacation spot, on Thursday grew to become the centre of a low-pressure space marked by intense storms with hail, heavy rain and winds of greater than 220 kilometres per hour (136 miles per hour), in line with a spokesman for the prefecture.

A woman aged 13 and a 72-year-old girl have been killed, the prefect’s workplace mentioned, including that 12 folks have been injured.

In the meantime, grid operator Enedis mentioned about 1,000 households have been with out electrical energy after a storm destroyed some infrastructure within the southern Loire and Ain departments.

On Wednesday night in Marseille, streets have been flooded and streams of water ran down steps within the port metropolis, movies shared on social media confirmed.

Additional north in France, drought has left the river Loire, well-known for the castles alongside its banks, so shallow that even its flat-bottom vacationer barges can barely navigate it.