There are six victims and 218 injured due to the passage of a tornado that hit Wuhan, the capital of the central province of Hubei, a city that has become famous worldwide for having recorded the first cases of coronavirus infection on Friday night. According to local authorities cited by Chinese media, the tornado hit the Caidian district with winds of 23.9 meters per second at 8:39 pm on Friday (2:39 pm in Italy), knocking down warehouses and a large number of trees. According to an initial survey of the damage made this morning, the homes of 147 families collapsed or were damaged.
About minutes earlier, another tornado had hit the city of Shingze, some 400 kilometers to the east, in Jiangsu Province. The Suzhou city government, which oversees the city, said one person was killed and 21 others were injured, two seriously. The tornado toppled factory buildings and damaged electrical structures in Shengze, near Shanghai on China’s east coast.
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