An 85-year-old British woman has died after a tornado struck a holiday campsite in the Algarve, Portugal, on Friday. The freak weather event tore through the HolaCamp site near Albufeira, leaving 28 people injured and causing widespread destruction.
Footage shared on social media shows the twister forming in the distance before ripping through the resort, flipping cars, destroying bungalows, and hurling debris. Panicked holidaymakers, including many Britons, fled as the storm hit.
Authorities confirmed the victim was found trapped beneath a collapsed bungalow. Her name has not yet been released. The injured include Portuguese, British, and Spanish nationals aged between six and 86, with two people seriously hurt at the campsite and one at the nearby Eden Hotel.
Portugal’s weather agency said there was a “high probability” the violent blast was a tornado, possibly fuelled by Storm Claudia, which also battered the UK. Albufeira mayor Rui Cristina described the scene as “truly devastating” and offered condolences to the victim’s family.
