A powerful gust turned deadly on a New York sidewalk when a loose solar panel slammed into a 76‑year‑old woman as the Nor’easter whipped through Brooklyn.

Police said the victim, identified as Lyudmila Braun, was struck late Sunday morning, Oct. 12, in Coney Island, near Ocean Parkway and West Brighton Avenue, steps from an entrance to the elevated Q train line.

She had been walking to a nearby grocery store when the panel, measuring roughly 41 by 87 inches, detached from a steel carport in a parking lot and sailed about 20 feet into an adjacent pedestrian walkway, according to the New York City Department of Buildings.

First responders found her unresponsive around 10:30 a.m. and took her to Lutheran Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, NBC News reported.

City inspectors said the

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