At least three people have died in the Italian region of Tuscany (center) as a result of the passage of storm ‘Ciarán’, which has also left serious incidents in other Western European countries. Thus, the president of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani, has reported the death of two people in the municipality of Montemurlo and another in Rosignano.

“Never before have we recorded so much rain in so few minutes,” Giani published on his X social network account, formerly Twitter. According to the forecasts of the Italian Civil Protection services, the storm will move from the north, on red alert, to the south of the country, which until now was on yellow and orange alert, depending on the municipality.

With these latest fatalities, there are now nine people who have lost their lives in Europe due to the passage of Ciarán, which has left heavy rain and gale-force winds in the English Channel, Spain and Belgium, where it has also caused Dozens injured, power outages, transportation disruptions and school closuresamong other incidents.

The storm, one of the most virulent extratropical cyclones in recent times in Western Europe, claimed the lives of two people in France, two in Belgium, one in Spain and one in the Netherlands.

The first victim caused by Ciarán in the French country, where winds of more than 200 km/h have been recorded, was a man, a truck driver, who had a tree fall above in the Aisne department, as confirmed by the French Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune.

Around noon on Thursday, the fall from the first floor of another man, 70 years old and who was already found in cardiorespiratory arrest by the emergency services after having fallen from the balcony devastated by the gale in the Norman town of Le Havre, raised to two the number of deaths in France due to the storm.

In addition, 16 people were injured in this country, including a person in serious condition on a university campus in the city of Roubaix, on the border with Belgium, and seven firefighters, who until early afternoon carried out more than 3,500 interventions in the areas. affected by the storm.

On the other hand, 1,315 people had to be displaced, especially from campsites and reception areas, as well as from several homes in the city of Brest (Brittany, northwest) due to the fall of a crane.

In Belgium, a five-year-old boy died after a branch fell on him while he was playing in a children’s area. from a park in the city of Ghent, while another three-year-old child was injured, according to public radio and television RTBF.

In that same town, another person lost his life and his companion broke his leg when a tree collapsed on them while they were walking at midday through the central Citadel Park, according to the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws and confirmed by the police.

Near Antwerp, in northern Belgium, a person is in serious condition after a warehouse retaining wall collapsed on top of him, while in Brussels firefighters rescued a seriously injured man from the river canal and two other people who rushed to help him and that they are out of danger, although neither the circumstances of the incident nor its relationship with the storm are clear.

He Falling trees were also the cause of the death of a person in the Netherlandsin the municipality of Venray (in the province of Limburg) and a 23-year-old girl in Madridwhere in a central street in the capital a tree of about 20 meters fell on the woman this afternoon while she was crossing a pedestrian crossing.

In Spain, the storm caused wind with very strong gusts in the north and center of the country and even hurricanes in mountain and coastal areas, where the speed reached 165 km/h; while in the Netherlands gusts of more than 110 kilometers per hour in different provinces on the Dutch coast.