The World - News from June 8, 1987

At least four people were killed and 50 injured when a freak storm swept across northern Spain and southwestern France, overturning boats and uprooting trees, police said. The storm spread panic among sunbathers on Spanish beaches. One of the victims was a woman hit by a surfboard hurled onto shore by sudden, hurricane-force winds on the beach near Bilbao. At Zumaya, near San Sebastian, a 7-month-old infant died when the gale tore down planks from a flimsy beachside bar. In France, one man drowned and another was crushed to death by a heavy branch torn off by winds.