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AFP
Warsaw
Five people including two teenage Girl Guides at a campground died in freak accidents on Saturday when violent storms hit Poland in the grip of a heatwave, fire officials and police said.
The two girls, aged 13 and 14, were crushed by falling trees while sleeping in a tent.
Around 20 other children were injured when the storm hit the campground for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides hosting 140 youngsters in the northern village of Suszek.
It took hours for firefighters to clear away trees and other debris from access roads before they could reach and evacuate the scouts from the camp pitched in a forest flattened by violent wind.
"We were really scared and we just stayed put until all the trees came down," a boy scout who was not named told the TVN24 news channel.
