Storm: Truck blocks highway, Briton drowned in Ypres

In Ypres Storm Eunice may therefore have claimed a fatality. It concerns a Briton of 79 years.

The man died on the Diksmuidseweg at the beginning of the Ieperlee, at the marina of Ypres. The circumstances are not yet completely clear, but it seems that the man ended up in the water from a boat.

Emergency services are also on site there, but help is no longer of any avail.

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In Saint-Elois Shop the E403 is blocked by a tilted truck. Three lanes are blocked in the direction of Kortrijk.

In mean a young jogger (18) was seriously injured. He was hit by a heavy branch from a tree in Lagestraat. The victim was taken to hospital in critical condition.

in Iwin the glass windows of a car garage have been smashed by a fierce gust of wind. The cars in the showroom were brought out just in time when the first window broke.

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