MADRID – A 20-month-old girl died after being struck on the head during a violent hailstorm that caused havoc in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, authorities said on Wednesday (Aug 31). Fist-sized hailstones up to 10 centimetres in diameter rained down on Tuesday on an area around the village of La Bisbal d'Emporda. They caused injuries – mostly broken bones and bruising...
A person holds up a hailstone during a hailstorm in Girona, Spain, on Aug 30, 2022.MADRID – A 20-month-old girl died after being struck on the head during a violent hailstorm that caused havoc in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, authorities said on Wednesday .
"People started screaming and hiding", said musician Sicus Carbonell, who filmed the storm's destructive aftermath in Castell d'Emporda, a nearby hotel where his band was playing a canvas-covered terrace when everyone was forced to run for cover. "There was a little girl of around three or four who was not sheltering under the parasol. I ran out and grabbed her...
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