Two children, aged 4 and 13, were swept away on Saturday evening around 11:30 p.m. while they were in their parents' car who attempted to cross a submersible bridge over the Gardon.
The death toll from bad weather in the South-East rose to five deaths with the discovery on Monday of the body of an octogenarian in the Hérault river. The south of France is no longer on orange flood alert this Tuesday while Météo France has placed Yonne, Gironde, Charente-Maritime, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Puy-de-Dôme under surveillance.