The death toll from the bad weather which hit the South-East on March 9 and 10 now stands at seven. The body of the 12-year-old boy was found by emergency services in Gard.

He was the last member of a family swept away in their vehicle to be searched for. His sister, aged 4, was found in Gard by the gendarmes on Tuesday. A man died in Ardèche, downstream from the place where a man disappeared after severe weather over the weekend.