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Eight people have been injured after a Ryanair flight was hit by heavy turbulence in a thunderstorm, according to reports

The Wednesday, June 4, flight was bound for Milan, Italy, after departing Berlin, Germany

"The captain called ahead for medical assistance and the aircraft landed normally," Ryanair told PEOPLE in a statement

Eight people have been injured after a Milan-bound Ryanair flight was hit by heavy turbulence from a thunderstorm, according to reports.

The Wednesday, June 4, flight, which had departed Berlin, was forced to make an emergency landing in southern Germany amid the incident, according to Reuters and RTE .

Police in Memmingen, which is 70 miles west of Munich, told PEOPLE the bad weather prompted the pilot to land in the city after the plane enc

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