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Nine missing after heavy rainfall in south-east France

France has been battered by heavy rain since Storm Alex made landfall on Thursday afternoon.

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Some 850 firefighters were on Saturday deployed in France's southeastern département of Alpes-Maritimes as nine people remain unaccounted for following heavy rainfalls, reports Euronews.

"Currently we have nine people known to be missing and three supposed missing," the fire service of the Alpes-Maritime département said.

France has been battered by heavy rain since Storm Alex made landfall on Thursday afternoon. Brittany, in the north-west, and the Côte d'Azur, in the south-east, have been particularly affected.

Météo France said in a bulletin published on Saturday morning that although rainfall had weakened in the Alpes-Maritimes, the rise in the water level in a number of unmonitored watercourses still justified an amber warning.

Read more of this report from Euronews.