25 October 2022 01:30
Tornado-like storms that tore through northern France sheared off part of a church roof, felled trees and power lines, and left scores of people without a safe place to live.
According to the regional administration for the Pas-de-Calais region said, one person suffered light injuries in the storms Sunday, and some 150 people were evacuated.
Images shared online shows dark clouds suddenly spinning over fields and woods as objects flew through the air.
The winds ripped away part of the roof of the village church in bihucourt, and damaged its belltower.
Roof beams and shingles littered roads, trees, and power lines.
The firefighter service in the Pas de Calais region described, "tornado-type" winds targeted bihucourt, ervillers and hendecourt-les-cagnicourt.
Some 70 kilometers to the south, about 60 homes and other buildings were damaged in the French Towns of Conty and O-de-Selle, according to local authorities, and villagers were evacuated.
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