Giant hailstones trigger intensive injury in a small German city as a storm hits Bavaria

A storm with massive hailstones has broken four-fifths of the buildings in a small city within the southern German state of Bavaria

ByThe Related Press

August 27, 2023, 11:55 AM

A home wall of an house constructing is broken by hail in Kissing, Germany, Saturday Aug. 26, 2023. A storm with massive hailstones broken four-fifths of the buildings in a small city within the southern German state of Bavaria, native authorities mentioned Sunday. The storm swept throughout the southern a part of Bavaria on Saturday. In Kissing, simply exterior Augsburg, police mentioned 12 folks have been injured when a beer tent that they have been attempting to place up was blown over. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa by way of AP)

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BERLIN — A storm with massive hailstones broken four-fifths of the buildings in a small city within the southern German state of Bavaria, native authorities mentioned Sunday.

The storm swept throughout the southern a part of Bavaria on Saturday. In Kissing, simply exterior Augsburg, police mentioned 12 folks have been injured when a beer tent that they have been attempting to place up was blown over.

Additionally in Kissing, the wind ripped wood slats off the roof of a house for the aged, whereas hail brought about seen injury to the facade of a residential constructing, German information company dpa reported.

The worst injury seemed to be in Dangerous Bayersoien, a municipality of about 1,300 folks within the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area, close to the Austrian border.

County authorities mentioned Sunday that it was hit by a hailstones measuring as much as 8 centimeters (over 3 inches), which broken parked vehicles and smashed roof tiles and attic skylights, whereas the storm additionally ripped roofs off some buildings. They mentioned that 80% of the buildings have been severely broken, however nobody was damage.

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