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On the evening of Saturday, around 11:30 p.m., a couple and their two children aged 4 and 13 were ;té carried away by the waters in their car while they were on a Dions bridge. The mother was killed. rescued by firefighters and a helicopter flies over the area to try to find the victims.
Since Saturday evening, around 8 p.m., an elderly man aged 62 is also increased disappeared. He was à in his vehicle when he was arrested. carried away by water on a submersible deck, à Winners. The man who was with him in his car managed to get there. escape alone, before help arrives. Around 5 a.m., two women, aged 47 and 50, contacted each other. help when they found themselves in difficulty &agrav; Goudargues, on a submersible bridge. They are still wanted on Sunday.
8,000,000 homes without electricity
Thousands of homes have been damaged. deprived of electricity, on the night of Saturday 9 Sunday March 10, in Drôme and Ardèche. Violent gusts of wind blew; on the departments, with a point at 172 km/h on Mount Mézenc. In the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes, intense rainfall occurred overnight. He fell up to 'à 160 millimeters Méounes, à the west of the department, according to the prefecture. a flood peak expected early in the morning. À Fr&eac;jus, 60 people were disappointed; People evacuated as a preventive measure, 30 days Hyères. À Mandelieu-la-Napoule (Alpes-Maritimes), “the campsites have beené “evacuated just like a tourist residence and the inhabitants of the ground floor of a neighborhood”, explained the mayor, Sébastien Leroy, on franceinfo, Sunday morning. "We have an injuredé light, one of the agents who responded to a falling tree,” he added.
L'Aveyron, Lozère, Ardèche, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, l& ;#39;Yonne, Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Landes and Pyr&eac;nées-Atlantiques wereé placed on orange flood alert for Sunday. The Landes and the Pyrenees-Atlantiques are on orange wave-submersion vigilance. In the Alpes-Maritimes, the orange rain-flood vigilance has been increased. avalanches have been lifted but the department is now on avalanche alert. The Monica Depression moves towards the Bay of Biscay and “generates a rapid and disturbed flow” of the western sector over the south of the Bay of Biscay”, indicates Météo France in its latest bulletin. "These strong winds having blowné offshore have generated a strong westerly swell which propagates up to the Atlantic facade on Sunday and Monday, adds the forecasting institute. The waves are particularly strong on the south of the Aquitaine facade for high seas on Sunday afternoon."