'Storm of the century' leaves trail of destruction across Europe

Updated at 6.43pm with increased death toll, details -

Fierce winds and heavy rains claimed at least five lives across northern Europe on Monday as Storm Ciara disrupted travel, grounded hundreds of flights, flooded roads and left vast areas without power.

In one of the region's most violent storms for years, one man died and another was reported missing in southern Sweden when their boat capsized.

In Slovenia, a 52-year-old man died Monday when a tree fell on his car as he travelled in the northeast of the country.

In southern Poland, at Bukowina Tatrzanska, a 40-year-old woman and her young daughter were killed by roofing torn away by the storm-force winds, police in Zakopane said.

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Police in London said that a man had been killed in his car on Sunday when a tree fell on to a motorway southwest of the capital.

In the west of Germany, falling trees seriously injured three people: two women in Sarrebruck -- one of whom was in a critical condition -- and a 16-year-old boy in Paderborn.

And in the Czech Republic, a man was injured by a falling tree. Winds of up to 180 kilometres (110 miles) an hour left 100,000 without power, even toppling...