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© Independent.ieThe collapsed roof at Kent Station in Cork
The freak weather which ripped through the station moments after the Cork-Cobh train had left the platform at 3pm left a woman in her 20s injured.

Staff and onlookers at the station all spoke of the relief that no one had been killed in the incident, which scattered huge chunks of the roof several hundred metres across the station carpark.

On the platform, a large portion of the roof collapsed onto a train which was not in service, while the rest slumped onto the platform which seconds earlier had contained passengers bound for Cobh.

Train driver Ian Fuller, who witnessed the event, said a train bound for Cobh had left the station 35 seconds before the roof was ripped from the platform by what he said could only be described as a "mini tornado".

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"I have never seen anything like it. The Cobh train had just pulled away from the platform.

"I was looking at the canopy flapping as the wind picked up and it was exactly 35 seconds after the train had left when all of a sudden huge chunks of the roof were in the air. A big piece lifted off and smashed off the wall next to our canteen but luckily it didn't come through the window," he said.

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