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No injuries at tennis club as roof collapses

Police and rescue workers have allayed fears that players had been injured or become trapped after a roof collapsed at a tennis hall outside Södertälje on Wednesday evening.

Published: 3 February 2010 21:08 CET

There are believed to have been eleven players in the hall when the roof caved in.

“They had guardian angels: nobody was injured and everything ended well,” said police inspector Eva Malm at 9.30pm.

She said the players had gathered in the dressing rooms adjacent to the hall to drink coffee or wait for their families.

“Everybody is out as far as I understand,” said tennis club board member Jonas Nienhüysen, speaking to news agency TT at 9.15pm.

Nienhüysen explained that there are three tennis courts in the hall, the roof of which is vaulted and made of canvas. Originally the hall was erected for indoor golf training.

He believed the collapse was most likely caused by a build-up of snow. Heavy snow fall across southern and central parts of Sweden has led to roofs collapsing at various locations over the course of Wednesday.

Emergency services arrived at the hall in Rönninge, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm, shortly after the alarm was raised at 8.43pm.

WEATHER

Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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