Storms batter France, 50 dead

Published: 8:03PM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

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The storms ripped by cities, uprooting trees and travel signs, wreaking massacre on rail networks and forcing hundreds of flights to be cancelled at airports similar to Paris and Frankfurt.

Three people were killed in Spain, dual in Germany and one in Portugal, but France was the misfortune strike as complicated rains, clever gusts of breeze and high tides broken Atlantic seashore sea walls, murdering twenty-five people in the locale of l"Aiguillon sur Mer alone, the mayor told French television.

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"It is a healthy catastrophe," French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told BFM TV, calculating approximately the sum genocide fee in France at in between 45 and 50 and notice that high tides could means serve damage.

Hortefeux pronounced the French supervision had set in reserve 1 million euros in evident service assist and Budget Minister Eric Woerth released a matter observant victims could find taxation relief.

The French regions of Vendee and Charente Maritime gimlet the brunt of the charge and were placed on inundate rapt along with tools of Brittany.

But centuries-old trees were additionally uprooted in the gardens of the Versailles house nearby Paris, according to France Info radio.

Weather forecasters pronounced the storm, declared Xynthia, had changed up to northeast France and Belgium and would strike Denmark next.

Large tools of the UK are on inundate rapt as the nation is clipped by the lethal storm. Parts of Cambridgeshire face a serious inundate notice definition lives and dozens of properties might be at risk.