Vienna 19 August : Five people including two children died during the storms that ravaged areas of Austria local media reported.Two young girls between between four and eight were killed by fallen trees in the Carinthia state.
A dozen were wounded, Xinhua news agency quoted Austrian broadcaster ORF as declaring in an article
A tree that fell was responsible for three additional deaths in the Lower Austria state, according to ORF.
Local meteorological authorities reported that the storms whipped up gusts of over 100 kilometers per hour in the affected areas.
The storms resulted in a massive power outage , which made it necessary for the nation’s railway company OeBB to stop services for trains in the East Tyrol region and the states of Carinthia and Styria.
A total of 65,000 people across the United States were without power According to ORF.