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Tornado hits northern France, causes extensive damage to some homes

Reuters
Published on Oct. 25, 2022, 12:05 AM
Updated on Oct. 25, 2022, 9:32 PM

The local authority for the Pas-de-Calais region said one person had suffered light injuries, and that the tornado had caused extensive damage to some homes and infrastructure in the area.

PARIS (Reuters) - A mini tornado hit the village of Bihucourt near the northern France port of Calais on Sunday, as the country braced for a wave of storms after a spell of unseasonably warm weather.

Video footage posted on YouTube and social media showed a huge black cloud swirling up in the form of a tornado above the skies of Bihucourt.

FRANCE-WEATHER-TORNADO/REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

View of a snapped utility pole amid tornado damage in Bihucourt, northern France, October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

The local authority for the Pas-de-Calais region said one person had suffered light injuries, and that the tornado had caused extensive damage to some homes and infrastructure in the area.

(This story has been refiled to correct spelling of village in first and second paragraphs.)

(Reporting by Yann Tessier, Pascal Rossignol and Benoit Tessier; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)