Woman Killed By Tree As Storms Batter England
Agean France Presse Published: Nov 25, 2012, 9:49 AM EST From our partners
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A vehicle manages to drive along a road between flooded land in Somerset, southwest England Saturday Nov. 24, 2012. ( AP Photo/PA, Ben Birchall)
A woman was killed by a falling tree in southwest England, police said on Sunday, as severe flood warnings were introduced in parts of the country already soaked by rain and battered by strong winds.
The unnamed woman was taken to hospital, but died later, after a tree fell on her late Saturday in Exeter, Devon and Cornwall police said. Two other people were said to have been injured in the incident.
Cornwall in southwest England was the main focus of fears for life and property as rivers threatened to burst their banks and residents reported surges of floodwater coursing through picturesque towns.
Severe flood warnings -- which the Environment Agency classifies as meaning there is a risk to life -- were in place in the Cornish towns of Helston and Perranporth as well as in the pretty fishing port of Polperro.
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Alan Crockford, a pub landlord in Polperro, said there had been warnings but "nobody knew it would get this bad".
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