Costly storm
A freak 20-minute hailstorm which battered the Munich area earlier this year, wrecking aircraft and cars and injuring more than 300 people, has left insurers, with the biggest damages bill in German history. The West German Insurance Association said that payouts for the damage caused by a torrent of tennis ball-sized hailstones on July 12, were estimated at a total DMI.S billion (51250 million). Three people died of shock as a result of the downpour, which the association said damaged 100,000 houses and flats and 200,000 •vehicles and destroyed crops.- — Munich.
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Press, 15 November 1984, Page 26
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