BERLIN (AP) – Authorities in Germany say the death toll from a storm that swept across the country has increased to at least eight.
Police in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt said Friday that a 65-year-old man died trying to secure his roof and a 34-year-old man was killed by a falling tree.
At least six other people died and dozens more were injured across central and northern Germany as Thursday’s storm felled trees and wrought chaos on the roads.
Rescue workers are busy at the site where a car was hit by a falling tree during a storm in Moers, western Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. The driver was seriously injured in the accident. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)
Three people also died in the neighboring Netherlands and Belgium.
German rail company Deutsche Bahn resumed operations Friday, but warned of possible delays to its service because of damage to the tracks.
An ICE train of the Deutsche Bahn, is stopped on the track between Hannover and Goettingen near the village of Lamspringe, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2017, as rail workers on a maintenance train repair overhead power wires whilst others clear debris caused by fallen trees. A storm moved over large parts of Germany and police reported several injuries as well as the four deaths and the national railway company suspended long-distance trains across the country as train tracks were littered with fallen trees. (Swen Pf’rtner/dpa via AP)
A truck crashed during heavy storms at the motorway A 71 near Erfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. A powerful storm lashed Europe with high winds and snow, killing at least four people in three countries, grounding flights, halting trains, ripping roofs off buildings and flipping over trucks. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
Travellers heading to Schiphol Airport sit in dense traffic near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. Scores of flights and trains were cancelled in The Netherlands and drivers were warned to stay off the roads as the country took a powerful hit of a storm which was set to lash large parts of Europe.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
A tree sits on the overhead contact wire of a rail track in Duesseldorf, western Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. All long-distance trains in Germany were halted after large parts of Germany were hit by a storm. (David Young/dpa via AP)
Travellers heading to Schiphol Airport sit in dense traffic near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. Scores of flights and trains were cancelled in The Netherlands and drivers were warned to stay off the roads as the country took a powerful hit of a storm which was set to lash large parts of Europe.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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