At Least 5 Killed, 45,000 Households Without Power in Corsica

The camping site where a tree fell on a bungalow during storms killing a 13-year-old tourist in Sagone on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on Aug. 18, 2022. Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP via Getty Images

Violent thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds on Thursday left about 45,000 households without power on the French island of Corsica, where five people were killed.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Friday during a visit to Corsica that five people were killed on the island—correcting a figure of six dead he had given a day earlier.