The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gabriele Juen, confirmed a report by the ORF “ZiB” to the APA. Accordingly, the girl may have died when a tree fell on his bungalow on a campsite in the west of the island, as the French news agency AFP reported on Thursday evening.
According to Juen, the Austrian consul and chargé d’affaires traveled to Corsica to support the 13-year-old’s family. It was initially unclear which state the family came from.
According to the final assessment, five people died in the violent storm and around 20 others were injured. “We have promising news as far as the critically injured people are concerned,” said French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday, according to the dpa news agency. In addition, no other victims were discovered in the sea.
Although the weather service warned of the storms on Thursday morning, wind speeds of 100 and not 220 kilometers per hour were expected, which were reached within a few minutes. This is a very unusual phenomenon, the minister said. The disaster should be declared quickly so that those affected can be compensated quickly by the insurance companies.
The weather on the island normalized on Friday, as reported by the weather service Météo France. It was expected that thousands of holidaymakers would be able to return to the evacuated campsites.
Source: Nachrichten
