“The hailstorm lasted 10 minutes, but they were about ten minutes of fear,” added Vall, who assured that the storm unloaded ice stones up to 11 centimeters in diameter.
The hail also left fifty people injured of varying degrees. Dozens were treated at the primary care center in La Bisbal with contusions and some trauma, which in some cases required sutures.
“The girl, who was 20 months old, died in our hospital, during the night,” he confirmed to AFP, without further details, the Hospital Joseph trueta of Gironato which the baby was transferred.
The little girl is the first fatality in Europe due to a hailstorm since 1997.
The storm occurred on Tuesday afternoon and damaged cars, roofs and the stained glass windows of the church, according to images broadcast by the city council and the stations of Catalonia.
The storm was the strongest of its kind recorded in Catalonia in 20 years, according to the Generalitat, which explained that the stones fallen from the sky are the largest known in the community since 2002, reported the newspaper El País.
According to the records of European Severe storms Laboratory released today, the last deaths due to a hailstorm in Europe were four people in Romania on June 20, 1997.
The Meteorology Service of Catalonia maintains the alert activated for this Wednesday, especially in the province of Girona and the Ebro regions. At the moment there is a warning for “violent weather” with “possibility of stone [granizo] of more than 2 centimeters, winds of more than 25 meters per second and tornadoes”, added the Spanish media.
Source: Ambito
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