A twister hit the small historic fishing city of Zierikzee within the Netherlands on Monday, blowing the roofs off a number of homes and inflicting a number of casualties.
A minimum of one particular person died and 10 others had been injured because the whirlwind left a path of harm in a number of streets, in accordance with the Zeeland province security authority.
Emergency companies had been nonetheless assessing the extent of the harm, it stated in an announcement.
Movies of waterspout posted on-line
Video posted on social media confirmed a waterspout near the city.
Zierikzee is situated about 140 kilometers (87 miles) southwest of Amsterdam and has some 10,000 residents.
In line with Dutch public broadcaster NOS, the Netherlands experiences a number of tornadoes a yr, however the final deadly one to hit the nation was in 1992.
The twister got here as a storm entrance was crossing the Netherlands from south to north, inflicting heavy rain in some elements of the nation.
tj/wd (AFP, AP)