A woman was killed when a tree fell in Grigiškės, an area of Vilnius, on Monday morning as a powerful storm continues to pound the country.
“There is information about the death of one person after a tree fell down in Grigiškės. [...] We don’t know the specific circumstances but the information is that a tree fell over and there was a fatality,” Vida Šmigelskienė, a spokeswoman for the Fire and Rescue Department (PAGD), told BNS.
The incident happened at around 09:00.
According to Šmigelskienė, firefighters have received more than 400 reports of fallen trees on roads, buildings, cars and other consequences of the storm, with the largest number of calls coming from the municipalities of Alytus, Marijampolė, Klaipėda and Kaunas.
“I would like to remind residents not to leave their cars under trees, nobody can predict how things may turn out, a gust of wind may knock down a tree which is very likely to break. [...] Everyone must take care of their own safety, everyone must assess all the circumstances, whether to go on a trip or to drive, and not to come into contact with fallen wires in any way,” said the PAGT spokeswoman.
The winds on Sunday evening and Monday caused a lot of damage in many parts of the country, with many tree branches snapped, trees uprooted and power lines cut.
Correction July 30: An earlier version of the story mistakenly identified the victim as male.
