CERGY-PONTOISE, France: A tornado tore through districts north of Paris on Monday (Oct 20), toppling three construction cranes that killed one person and left four others with critical injuries, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The town of Ermont, about 20km northeast of Paris was worst hit by the sudden twister that caused damage across about 10 districts.<\/p>\n
Regional prosecutor Guirec Le Bras told AFP one 23-year-old construction worker was killed on a building site and 10 people had been injured with four in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The tornado toppled cranes and tore off building roofs, authorities said. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on the X platform that it had been a storm of “rare intensity”.<\/p>\n
Videos shared on social media showed three cranes falling within seconds of each other.<\/p>\n
One crane fell on a clinic, without causing injuries, and another on a residential building. Scores of firefighters, police and medical personnel were at the scene, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CERGY-PONTOISE, France: A tornado tore through districts north of Paris on Monday (Oct 20), toppling three construction cranes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,4676,50155],"class_list":{"0":"post-515657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-natural-disaster","12":"tag-tornado"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115409301343887778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}