President Emmanual Macron on Wednesday visited villages close to the Riviera in south-east France which were hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall last weekend when flash floods left four people dead and around 20 others still missing, with many homes and much of the local transport infrastructure destroyed.
Flood waters caused by the exceptionally violent rainstorms that hit south-east France at the weekend, in which four people have been confirmed to have died while many more are reported missing, unearthed corpses from local cemeteries, some of which have since been discovered on Italian beaches.
Three rescue workers died on Sunday night when their helicopter crashed for unknown reasons as they took part in emergency assistance missions over south-east France, where torrential rainfall and flooding caused the deaths by drowning of three other people.
