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3 dead as violent storm hits Corsica

PARIS: Three people, including a teenage girl, died along Corsica’s coast and two others were critically injured yesterday, as a violent storm battered the Mediterranean island with hurricane-force winds.

Hail, heavy rain and winds measured as peaking at 224km/h swept across the French island.

In southern Corsica, a 13-year-old girl died when a tree fell on another campsite and a 72-year-old woman was killed when her car was struck by a beach hut roof, authorities said.

The third victim, a 46-year-old Frenchman, died when a tree fell on a campsite bungalow in the north, authorities said. On France’s mainland, 1000 households were without power.

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