At least thirteen people died yesterday in a strong storm in Europe. Two children, aged four and eight, died in southern Austria when trees fell near a lake in Carinthia. A dozen people were injured, some of them seriously. Three people died in Lower Austria.

In Styria, Carinthia and East Tyrol, trains had to stop due to power outages caused by the storm, and fallen trees also blocked some roads, authorities said.

Six people died in Corsica, French authorities said. A tree fell on a 13-year-old girl at a camp in Sagon on the island's west coast.

In the south of the island, a 72-year-old woman died when the roof of a house fell on her car. A woman in a kayak, a fisherman and two other people also died.

The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who is visiting Corsica, said that the wind on the island was blowing at a speed of up to 200 kilometers per hour. 12 people were injured in the storm, one of them seriously. Due to the storm, 45.000 households were left without electricity.

Strong storms also hit other parts of France, flooding the streets of Marseille and nearby Cassis.

Two people died in the storm in Tuscany. Trees fell on a man and a woman. Firefighters had 150 interventions in Liguria and Tuscany. The central region of Emilia Romagna was also hard hit by the storm.

Europe is affected by extreme weather conditions all summer, which according to experts is a consequence of climate change.

There are forest fires in the south of Italy, Sicily and the island of Pantelleria, and the north of the country was hit by a storm after a long drought.

Spain, like France, was ravaged by wildfires, but the rain at least brought the fire in Valencia under control. Almost 2.000 people have been evacuated but can now return, Spanish media reported.

The European Union is registering the worst forest fires this time of year since joint monitoring began in 2006, according to the European Commission.