UK weather: Storm Babet claims 7th victim – as firefighters rescue kids and carry them out of flooded school
FIREFIGHTERS heroically rescued kids and carried them out of school today as it was revealed Storm Babet had claimed a seventh victim.
It was this afternoon confirmed a man had been found dead after tragically becoming trapped in a car in floodwaters.
The devastating news comes as the Met Office warned more rain is on the way.
Emergency services this afternoon recovered a body following reports a person was stuck in a vehicle near Marykirk, Aberdeenshire, on Friday.
He is the seventh person to die after heavy rainfall and ferocious winds from Storm Babet battered the UK over the weekend.
Police Scotland said formal identification is still to take place, but the man's next of kin have been informed.
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Flooding across the country is still causing havoc, with Irish firefighters called in to help evacuate school children today.
The youngsters at St Colmcille's National School, Co Kilkenny were carried out by firefighters after floodwaters started rising.
Crews were seen holding the youngsters on their backs as the waded through the brown water making its way into the school.
It comes after a man who died after a tree struck his van near Forfar, Angus during Storm Babet was named by police today.
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John Gillan, 56, was pronounced dead at the scene following the crash on the B9127 at Whigstreet at around 5.05pm on Thursday.
The Met Office has now issued a new yellow weather warning for heavy rain - while 105 alerts from the Environment Agency in place for flooding in England.
And a fresh weather warning for rain has been issued covering a vast swathe of England already hit by flooding as a result of Storm Babet.
The Met Office issued the yellow warning for “heavy rain” which could lead to further flooding in the East Midlands, including Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, as well as much of Yorkshire including Sheffield, Leeds and York and Humberside.
The warning, which is in place for between 3am and 4pm tomorrow.
Environment minister Rebecca Pow today said that at its peak more than 300 flood warnings were in place - and that services experienced its busiest day since 2015/16, with over 1,800 calls.
Speaking to the Commons, she said: "As of this morning we are aware of 1,258 properties having been flooded but there was also wider disruption to road and rail networks, and as well as some flooding on agricultural land - which will have impacted crops."
Ms Pow noted there is still more wet weather to come, adding: "Significant river flooding impacts remain probable in parts of South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and significant river flooding impacts are also probable more widely."
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey today warned it may take “several months” for some of the impacted people to move back into their homes after the flooding.
Yellow is the least dangerous out of the weather warnings - it means "be aware".
The Environment Agency currently has 105 flood warnings across England after rising water left 1,250 homes flooded.
Storm Babet claimed seven lives as it ripped across Britain over the weekend.
'DANGER TO LIFE'
Previous danger-to-life red warnings issued by the Met Office have now expired with lengthy clean-up operations set to start up and down the country.
In the latest tragedy, a woman, in her 80s, passed away inside after a flat filled with severe flooding yesterday.
Emergency services were called to a flat in Chesterfield after what cops described as "a sudden death" which they believe was weather-related.
It was also revealed a horror car pile-up on the M4 on Friday was weather-related, according to .
The smash, which involved a lorry and four cars, killed two women who were travelling together.
Devastatingly in the hours that followed a teenage driver was killed in a crash amid the wet conditions.
An 18-year-old was also left fighting for his life on Friday night after the car he was travelling in smashed into a wall in a West Yorkshire village.
The Sun understands the horrendous weather conditions were a factor in the horror smash.
'KILLER' STORM
The collision involved a white Seat Ibiza which ploughed with a wall on Brow Lane at Shelf, near Halifax.
Cops on Friday confirmed two people had fallen victim to Storm Babet.
West Mercia Police said a man in his 60s had died in the storm.
He was found two hours after getting caught in fast-flowing flood water and being dragged under in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
Onlookers frantically called cops at around 10.40am on Friday before the tragic discovery was made.
He was the third person to die after John Gillan, 56, was travelling in his vehicle when a tree struck it in Angus, Scotland.
A 57-year-old woman also died on Thursday after being swept into a river in the region.
On Saturday, an elderly man and woman died when their car plunged off a 30ft bridge.
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Horror photos show the car upside down while emergency services probed the scene.
Police have not confirmed whether the tragedy was weather related.
The seven victims of Storm Babet
STORM Babet claimed seven victims as 130mph winds and torrential rain swept across the country causing widespread havoc.
Maureen Gilbert
Gran Maureen Gilbert, 83, was found dead at her home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, by her son and grandson on Saturday.
She had desperately tried to flee the water as it entered her house, rising as high as eye-line, but sadly she couldn't be saved.
Two killed in M4 crash
Storm Babet has also been blamed for a horror five-vehicle pile-up on the M4 which claimed the lives of two women on October 20.
Emergency services were called to the eastbound carriageway between junction 17 for Chippenham and junction 18 for Bath at approximately 9.10am.
Two women travelling in one of the vehicles were sadly pronounced dead at the scene and specialist officers have informed their next of kin.
Man caught in floodwater
West Mercia Police said a man in his 60s had died in the storm.
He was found two hours after getting caught in fast-flowing flood water and being dragged under in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
Onlookers frantically called cops at around 10.40am on Friday before the tragic discovery was made.
John Gillan
John Gillan, 56, was travelling in his vehicle when a tree struck it in Angus, Scotland.
Wendy Taylor
The body of Mackie's snack tycoon was pulled from the Water of Lee in Glen Esk, Angus, at around 4pm
Wendy was a director of the Taylor Snacks group, formerly Mackie's Crisps.
Man trapped in vehicle
Emergency services have recovered a body following reports a person was stuck in a vehicle near Marykirk, Aberdeenshire, on Friday.
