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THE GREAT TORNADO HITS FRANCE !!


The Great Tornado has hit Northern France !!

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Ill wind: Freak tornado kills three in French town.
a.. Lizzy Davies in Paris
a.. The Guardian,
a.. Tuesday August 5 2008

The bodies of a man and a woman were pulled from the wreckage of their home
yesterday, after a tornado tore through northern France, ripping off roofs,
overturning cars and destroying dozens of houses.

The couple were believed to be the deputy mayor of Hautmont, which was at
the epicentre of the tornado near the Belgian border, and his wife.

Earlier the body of an elderly woman was also discovered. She was thought to
have died when her home collapsed on top of her. Thirteen other people were
injured.

Firefighters, medics and police searched two residential streets in the area
yesterday to establish whether anyone else was buried under the rubble.

High winds and torrential rain lashed the region on Sunday night as the
tornado swept through an area of about four square miles in less than two
hours.

"The roof was torn off my house, all the windows were broken and the wall
between mine and my neighbour's house was destroyed as well," Leon
Denoyelle, 75, a resident of one of the worst-hit parts of Hautmont, told
AFP. "In the street there are no more roofs and the shutters have all gone."

An unidentified resident told Reuters they heard a "noise" and then the
"windows blew open".

"The window panes that were open broke, and then it was done. It was done
and everything was a disaster; it's a disaster," the resident added.

Another local said: "Well, I live across the street. I have my health, but
the rest - you work all your life and in two minutes, everything is ruined."

Television footage showed one house that appeared to have been sliced in
two, with all its floors open to the elements. Bricks and other debris also
lined the streets.

Mystery surrounded the death of another Hautmont resident, a 76-year-old man
who apparently killed himself after his house was demolished by the storm.