Falling Trees Kill 5 in Storms Lashing Austria

Falling Trees Kill 5 in Storms Lashing Austria
A fallen tree after a severe storm at Saint Andrae lake in the Lavant valley near Klagenfurt, Austria, on Aug. 18, 2022. Erwin Scheriau/APA/AFP via Getty Images
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VIENNA—Falling trees killed five people in Austria in two separate incidents on Thursday as storms that battered the Mediterranean Sea’s northern shores earlier in the day reached the Alpine country in the afternoon.

Two girls aged four and eight died when trees on the edge of a lake near the town of St Andrae in southern Austria, close to the border with Slovenia, collapsed, police said.