Storm Ciaran caused travel chaos with ports and transport disruptions, killing 10 as winds of up to 200 km/h battered Western Europe.

According to reports, three people died in Tuscany, Italian authorities announced on Friday, reporting record rainfall and the declaration of a state of emergency.

Tuscany governor Eugenio Giani said the three dead included an 85-year-old man who was found drowned in his house.

Florence mayor Dario Nardella said the “situation is critical” in the city.

Trees felled by gale-force winds caused most of the deaths in Europe. In the Belgian city of Ghent, a five-year-old Ukrainian boy and a 64-year-old woman were killed by falling branches.

Falling trees had earlier killed a lorry driver in his vehicle in northern France’s Aisne region, and French authorities also reported the death of a man who fell from his balcony in the port city of Le Havre.

A man in the Dutch town of Venray, a woman in central Madrid, and a person in Germany also died.

The French weather service said storms would continue into Friday, notably in the southwest of the country and on the island of Corsica.