Furious windstorms with gusts reaching up to 130 kilometres per hour lashed Poland Thursday, causing the deaths of seven people, damaging buildings and power lines and blocking roads around the country. A six-month-old baby was crushed to death by a tree branch as the mother was pushing the pram through a Warsaw park, PAP news agency reported, while radio reports said a 68-year-old man died after he was blown off his bicycle in the north-eastern Masurian Lakes region. Four other people including two firemen were also crushed to death by falling trees. Three of this victims were in the northwest of the country, while the fourth was a woman crushed to death inside her car in north-eastern Poland. A farmer was the seventh victim, crushed under his tractor when it flipped over, buffeted by a gale force winds while attempting to climb a hill, Polish Radio reported.
