A whole lot injured, villages DESTROYED as robust twister rips via Czech Republic cities (VIDEOS)

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Greater than 150 folks have been reported injured and several other villages have suffered extreme harm as an F3 or F4 class twister touched down within the countryside in Moravia, alongside the Czech-Slovak border.

A video circulating on social media captured the spout touching down someplace between Breclav and Hodonin, in southeast Czechia. 

The aftermath of the twister was additionally captured on digital camera. Right here is the village of Luzice, with some three,000 inhabitants.

The mayor of Hrušky, which has a inhabitants of 1,500, says half the village was “destroyed.”

Authorities have estimated the variety of accidents between 100 and 150 folks, however stories of accidents and harm are nonetheless coming in.

One Czech TV station mentioned the twister could have been a F3 or F4 on the Fujita scale, rated at “vital” to “extreme” harm. Meteorologist Michal Žáok mentioned it was “in all probability the strongest twister in latest [Czech]historical past” and really unusual in Europe.

Native emergency companies have warned residents to not be exterior or on the roads, and described the state of affairs as “broken homes, fireplace, site visitors accidents, timber on automobiles and houses.”

“A whole lot” of police and first responders have been dispatched to southern Moravia, Czech police introduced, urging folks on the roads to “clear the best way” for them .

The final time a twister was detected in Czechia was Could 2018. That was a F0 occasion that struck largely empty farmland within the Plzen district, leading to no accidents.

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