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28/10/2013
Two Killed As Winds Cause Trees To Fall
Two people have been killed by falling trees as a storm battered southern Britain.
A teenage girl in Kent suffered fatal injuries when a tree came down on a static home she was sleeping in next to her family home in Edenbrigde at around 07:20.
And a man in his 50s in Watford died when a tree fell and crushed his Peugeot 307 at Lower High Street, Hertfordshire, at around 6:50 this morning.
Some 270,000 homes reportedly lost power and rail and airline services were cancelled due to the high winds.
According to forecasters the storm has now ended in the UK, leaving a "broadly windy day".
(MH/CD)
A teenage girl in Kent suffered fatal injuries when a tree came down on a static home she was sleeping in next to her family home in Edenbrigde at around 07:20.
And a man in his 50s in Watford died when a tree fell and crushed his Peugeot 307 at Lower High Street, Hertfordshire, at around 6:50 this morning.
Some 270,000 homes reportedly lost power and rail and airline services were cancelled due to the high winds.
According to forecasters the storm has now ended in the UK, leaving a "broadly windy day".
(MH/CD)
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