A mini tornado hit the village of Bihucourt near the northern France port of Calais on Sunday, as the country braced for a wave of storms after a spell of unseasonally warm weather.
Video footage posted on YouTube and social media showed a huge black cloud swirling up in the form of a tornado above the skies of Bihucourt.
The local authority for the Pas-de-Calais region said one person had suffered light injuries, and that the tornado had caused extensive damage to some homes and infrastructure in the area.
(This story has been refiled to correct spelling of village in first and second paragraphs.)
(Reporting by Yann Tessier, Pascal Rossignol and Benoit Tessier; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
