9:47 AM
Jalal Hameed Bhatti
Two people died when their car was crushed by a falling tree in Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany. Two children in the car were injured. German meteorologists measured record wind speeds of 191 km/h (119mph) over the North Sea.
While in In Brittany, western France, a woman was swept out to sea. And in the Dutch city of Amsterdam a tree felled by the wind crushed a woman by a canal.
In the UK as many as 600,000 homes suffered power cuts. In Kent in southeast England, a 17-year-old girl was crushed when a tree fell on the caravans her family was living in while renovation work was taking place at their home.
A man and a woman died when they were trapped under rubble after an uprooted tree caused a gas explosion in Hounslow in west London.
In the meanwhile, Emergency services in Denmark and Sweden have issued storm warnings, as Scandinavia faces winds gusting at about 162km/h (100mph).
A man and a woman died when they were trapped under rubble after an uprooted tree caused a gas explosion in Hounslow in west London.
In the meanwhile, Emergency services in Denmark and Sweden have issued storm warnings, as Scandinavia faces winds gusting at about 162km/h (100mph).
