Four people died and several were missing after violent storms triggered flash flooding, uprooting trees and ripping off roofs in southeastern France, authorities said Friday, reports Business Recorder.
Helicopters, soldiers, divers and paramilitary police carried out dozens of rescue operations in the region, hit by weeks of successive storms and flooding.
Local government authorities said the body of a 50-year-old man was found Friday afternoon as downpours and strong winds continued to pound the region.
Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced earlier the deaths of three women in the Mediterranean towns of La Londe-les-Maures, Grimaud and Hyères.
Regional authorities later said another three people were missing.
One of the victims was a woman whose body was found next to her car alongside a river, said Pierre Soubelet, the prefect of the Var département on the Mediterranean coast. The woman was understood to have been out with her eight-year-old daughter at the time.
Read more of this AFP report published by Business Recorder.