5 people, including 2 children, crushed to death after winds topple trees in Poland
Strong winds in southern Poland on Monday toppled trees that killed three adults and two children, emergency responders said.
A spokesperson for the region's firefighters, Hubert Cieply, said two women and a 6-year-old were crushed to death in the town of Rabka-Zdrój.
Separately, a woman died when a tree fell on her car in the town of Zakopane at the foot of the Tatra Mountains, said a spokesperson for Zakopane's firefighters, Andrzej Król-Łęgowski.
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Another tree in the same town killed a child, according to a spokesperson for medical responders, Pawel Mickowski.
Local authorities have issued a warning about dangerous winds reaching at least 62 mph.
They have also closed mountain tracks in Tatra National Park.