A storm battering north-western Europe has killed eight people - four of them in southern England.
Two
people died when their car was crushed by a falling tree in
Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany. Two children in the car were
injured.In Brittany, western France, a woman was swept out to sea. And in the Dutch city of Amsterdam a tree felled by the wind crushed a woman by a canal.
Many trains were cancelled in and around London and in north Germany.
In many cases in the UK fallen trees had to be cleared from railway lines.
At least 50 flights have been cancelled at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands, and the German broadcaster ARD says there are severe delays at Hamburg airport.
In the UK as many as 600,000 homes suffered power cuts, though many were later reconnected.
Power cuts also hit 42,000 homes in northern France, and at Belle-Ile in Brittany a woman was swept into the sea from a cliff.
Estimated damage to the Netherlands infrastructure is likely to go above 100 million euros
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