4 Die as Storm Sweeps Britain

LONDON —  Snow, sleet and winds gusting to 100 m.p.h. lashed Britain today, ripping away roofs, downing power lines and felling trees. At least four people were killed and 16 were injured.

Police said a teen-age boy died when a tree toppled onto a portable classroom at a school in Maidstone, southeast of London. High winds also killed three people in central England--a man struck by a flying piece of fence, a motorist whose car was hit by a falling tree and a crane operator whose vehicle was blown over near Tipton. Snow, ice and fog were blamed for a 40-vehicle pileup in which eight people were injured on an expressway.