PRAGUE – A tornado has swept through several villages in the south-eastern Czech Republic, killing three people and injuring at least 60.
Thursday’s storm blew off roofs from a number of buildings in the southern Breclav and Hodonin districts, uprooting trees and overturning cars.
Rescue teams from across the country and also from neighboring Austria and Slovakia have been deployed.
Michaela Bothová, a spokeswoman for the South Moravian rescue service, told Czech TV that 63 people had been taken to hospital by medical services, ten of whom had severe injuries. Three later died.
Dozens of other people sought medical help themselves, she added. Further casualties could not be ruled out as rescuers searched rubble.(BBC)
