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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.