Severe storms in France and Italy: entire regions flooded - six bodies washed up on the coast

There was a red alert in France. Storm low “Alex” did not spare Italy either.

After torrential rains and floods, several people are found dead.

• Severe storms left severe damage in France and northern Italy.

• Storm "Alex"

  hit the Atlantic coast on Friday and caused a dramatic situation in southern France and northern Italy on Saturday night.

• Several people can only be rescued dead.

Update from October 5th, 5:55 pm:

Storm low "Alex" has

caused a dramatic situation

in

and

.

On Monday, the rescuers still did not have an overview of the full extent of the damage and the number of deaths.

While the

news

on Monday morning of five bodies that

washed up

in the

, the number has now risen to at least six.

Your identity remains open at first.

According to reports, these could be cemetery corpses washed ashore from France.

According to a preliminary count, the Italian authorities recorded at least nine dead, including the six unidentified bodies in Liguria.

In the region of the

,

which was badly hit by the rain storms

, at least four dead were found, as the prefecture of the

confirmed.

Eight people are still missing.

Severe storms in France and Italy: entire regions flooded - five bodies washed up on the coast

Update from October 5th, 10.15 a.m.:

After the heavy

, the clean-up work continues in many places in northern Italy.

According to previous information,

in northwest Italy found at least eight deaths, including probably several French.

In

too

, storms caused severe

the weekend

, and entire

were destroyed.

Many streets and cities are partially flooded.

In

,

five bodies washed up on the coast and on a river

on Sunday, according to the

news

.

According to Italian reports, the

authorities in

suspected that they could be

from France.

Who the dead are is now to be determined by a final identification.

The fire brigade also reported on

on Twitter that the body of a French shepherd who had been missing had been found on the Colle di Tenda Alpine pass.

In the nearby town of

in the Italian province of Cuneo (Piedmont), the storm had been particularly bad since Friday evening.

Also in the Piedmont region near Vercelli, a 36-year-old motorist was torn away by the river water on a broken road and died.

In addition, a 53-year-old volunteer firefighter from the

in a rescue operation.

Severe storms in France and Italy: dead and missing - mayor describes "catastrophic situation"

Update from October 4th, 11.15 a.m.:

After the severe

with

in northern Italy, the clean-up work is currently in progress in many places.

As the news agency

reports, citing

information

from the authorities, two people

did not

survive the severe storms in

.

Two other people were still missing on Sunday.

They are a person from

and a man from Lombardy.

The damage from broken roads and bridges was particularly severe, and even entire cities in Piedmont were flooded.

The mayor of

spoke of a "catastrophic situation".

Sometimes it

rained more heavily

in the northeast of the Mediterranean country from Friday to

than it had for around 60 years.

Places overflowed with mud and water.

Cars were

swept away

in

.

The power went out for thousands of people.

At times there were more than 20 missing people, but most were found by Sunday.

However, the authorities continued to warn of flood risks.

This also applied to the Po River, which flows across Italy from the west and flows into the Adriatic Sea.

Storms in France and Italy: places cut off from the outside world - firefighter dies

Update from October 4, 7:20 a.m.:

After the

in

and

, the search for

and victims of hundreds of

continues.

Residents

who are

cut off

from the

in villages near the tourist metropolis

the south of France

also have to be supplied with water and food.

At

least eight people are still missing in the

French

on the border with Italy, and news from numerous others is still missing, said French

in a

on Saturday

.

No statement can yet be made about the final balance, but one is "very worried".

The

should also be used to support the rescuers

.

Floods after storms in Italy and France - bridges and houses washed away

The heavy rains that

hit

the

on Friday

triggered

fatal

.

Houses and bridges were torn away, long stretches of road disappeared in the

.

The

now calmed down a bit.

Two people were killed

in northern Italy after the

.

According to the media, among them was a member of the voluntary fire brigade from the Aosta Valley who was on a

.

Numerous people were missing.

Many households were

Of the initially around 22 missing people in the Piedmont region, including

21 people have now been found and brought to safety.

Storms in France and Italy: masses of water cause severe damage

Update from October 3, 5:16 p.m

.: Storm “Alex”

not only in

.

In Piedmont, numerous villages in which houses and streets were devastated were cut off from the outside world and without water and electricity, as the authorities of the region announced.

In the regions of Piedmont and Liguria, 300 liters of rain fell per square meter in 24 hours.

Cars were simply swept away in the masses of water.

A 53-year-old firefighter died in an operation in the Aosta Valley.

17 people were missing in north-western Italy on Saturday.

The Piedmont region was particularly hard hit.

16 people were missing in the province of Cuneo.

"The situation is dramatic," said the fire department in the province, according to the Italian agency Ansa.

150 firefighters are on duty.

Storm in Italy - German trekking group missing

Even a

did not initially contact a hotelier who was supposed to pick them up at Terme di Valdieri after a tour of several days, according to the dpa news agency.

In the

, some places were temporarily cut off from traffic after landslides and bridge damage. 

Damage was also

reported

from

.

In Ventimiglia on the border with France, Mayor Gaetano Scullino said, in view of the floods, "there has not been such a disaster since 1958".

There were heavy rains and floods on Saturday night in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto.

In Venice, locals and tourists alike marveled at the annual “

”

flood

.

Mobile dykes held back the floods this year.

In November last year, a record flood of 1.87 meters was measured in the lagoon city.

In the area around Nice in southern France, eight people were missing on Saturday, ten more were thought to be missing, as the fire department announced.

Among the missing were two firefighters whose vehicle was swept away by the floods during an operation.

Chaos after storms in southern France and northern Italy

Update from October 3, 2020, 11:39 a.m.:

In the south of France,

after the heavy

with torrential rain and floods

.

According to current knowledge, there are

and three allegedly missing, the fire brigade told the AFP news agency on Saturday.

Several villages in the hinterland of the

were

.

Prime Minister Jean Castex announced a visit to the disaster area.

Severe floods with

were also reported

from Italy

.

According to the fire brigade, the missing were two firefighters whose vehicle was

during an operation

.

A police officer who was initially missing was found safely.

In a village around 50 kilometers north of Nice, two residents who had fled to the roof of their house from the rising flood were also missing - the house collapsed, according to the authorities, and the two people disappeared in the floods.

A missing person's report is only considered secure if witnesses have seen the person concerned disappear.

In the case of the allegedly missing, however, there is no specific information about the disappearance.

Prime Minister Castex

announced that he would visit the region with Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin as soon as conditions allowed.

The state stands by the side of those affected and helpers, wrote Castex on the online service Twitter.

Je me rendrai auprès de nos forces de sécurité et secours dans les Alpes-Maritimes avec le ministre de l'Intérieur, dès que les conditions opérationnelles le permettront.

L'État est aux côtés des sinistrés et de tous ceux qui leur portent secours avec courage et dévouement.

- Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) October 3, 2020

Dozens of people were brought to safety from the floods, according to the fire department.

A representative of the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture spoke of an "unprecedented situation", large areas were affected by flooding and several villages were

.

in the village of Saint-Martin-Vésubie

.

A local member of parliament reported that the local gas station had been swept away by the floods and that several houses had been badly damaged.

There was a risk of

in several places

, so that many roads remained closed on Saturday.

At the Turini Pass, about ten kilometers from Bollène-la Vésubie, several fire engines had to wait before they could continue into the disaster area, as an AFP correspondent observed.

Several of the fire engines were loaded with boats.

Red alert - Atlantic coast hit by storm "Alex" - 100,000 houses without electricity

Update from October 2

: After the autumn storm "Alex" passed through, around 80,000 people in the north-west French coastal region of Brittany are without electricity.

Trees fell in many communities and people were not harmed after an initial assessment, as the prefecture of the Breton department of Morbihan announced on Friday.

On the

off the Breton coast, gusts of up to

per

measured

according to the radio news channel Franceinfo

.

The French weather service Météo France had already warned of "Alex" on Thursday.

Heavy rains are expected in south-east France.

In the region around Nice, schools remained closed, as Franceinfo reported.

J'appelle les laurentins à la plus EXTRÊME VIGILANCE, les averses sont conséquentes dans le moyen-haut pays.

The phenomena de ruissellement et crues sont donc à craindre dans les prochaines heures.

Tenez vous à l'écart du Var et de la mer #AlerteRouge # Meteo06 #Alex pic.twitter.com/FnrQMbbSi3

- Joseph SEGURA (@JosephSeguraSLV) October 2, 2020

France on alert: violent storm expected on the Atlantic coast - effects in Germany possible

First report from October 1, 2020:

Paris / Munich - In

, an impending

people on the

on

.

In the night from

, the storm called

is said to

sweep over the coastal regions on the Atlantic

with wind speeds of

.

The storm could therefore be described

as a "hurricane"

in terms of

*.

The

announced the impending

on Thursday.

The region of

in north-western

with the cities of

,

and

particularly affected by storm "Alex"

.

In the

particular,

warnings are issued against very strong winds.

The

area is marked in red

on the

map

.

There is "absolute vigilance" at night, it says on the page.

🔴 1 dpt en #vigilanceRouge

🔶 8 dpts en #vigilanceOrange

Restez informés on https://t.co/rJ24zzmmy4 pic.twitter.com/djnRk0mVWY

- VigiMétéoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) October 1, 2020

In addition, the

warned of numerous

.

In addition,

also to be feared.

On the coast, the weather service warns of

.

In the

is especially on

with

expected.

In

, too,

could make it

uncomfortable, as

reported

 by

,

among others

, and

also 

spreads it

on

: “The storm low makes a few 'laps of honor' over France ', it says there,“ and brings it until Sunday sometimes large amounts of rain. ”The current

developments

in

can be found in our Germany weather.

In August the low raged Kirsten in Bavaria.

Franconia was particularly hard hit.

There was even a warning from the German Weather Service for large parts of Bavaria.

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