4 killed by high winds in Poland

Four people were killed and six injured in Poland on Thursday as high winds caused disruption in the south of the country, the state fire service said.

Firefighters said they had been called out 3,200 times by 1230 GMT.

All four deaths occurred in the Lower Silesia region.

One person was killed when a van was blown off the road and a builder died when a wall of a house under construction fell over.

In the city of Wroclaw, a tree fell on a passenger car.

"Two people died in this incident," fire service spokesman Karol Kierzkowski told Poland's PAP news agency.

The state weather service has issued an alert for strong winds in all except two regions of Poland.

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Rail traffic was also affected by storm "Aurore", which has been causing devastation since Wednesday afternoon.

Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said in a tweet that the Ile-de-France region around Paris, Normandy, northern France and eastern Lorraine regions were the worst affected.

Social media were abuzz with commuters sharing pictures of damage caused by falling trees.

In the western Brittany region, a number of homes were destroyed by flash floods.

Some 3,000 technicians have been deployed to restore power supply, Enedis said.

The Aurore gales, which headed towards the east of the country overnight, had triggered orange level weather alerts -- the second-highest alert level -- in many parts of the country Wednesday.

This had now been lifted in most places, but Thursday some 15 departments in the east of the country were still on the lower yellow alert.

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