A woman was killed and two people were injured by a large Christmas tree that fell during a storm in the Belgian town of Oudenaarde, authorities said Friday.
Security camera footage from Belgian media showed a brightly lit 66-foot-tall Christmas tree slowly leaning and then collapsing next to a Christmas market on Thursday as a merry-go-round spun in the city’s historic square.
The strange accident occurred on Friday night in the Belgian city of Oudenaarde. X/@koengodderis
A spokesman for the Oost-Vlaanderen provincial prosecutor said the victim was a 63-year-old woman from Oudenaarde.
In the incident, two women from the same town were slightly injured.
“The investigation will focus on whether the tree was properly secured and also the impact of the weather,” he said.
Storm Pia, which disrupted traffic in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands on Thursday, also hit western Belgium, where the weather service issued a code yellow warning for coastal areas.
The storm also caused one death in the Netherlands, where a woman died of her injuries on Friday after being hit by a falling tree on Thursday, her employer’s health organization ZoZijn said.
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