A body was discovered Tuesday evening in Ardèche downstream from the place where a man disappeared after severe weather over the weekend, but emergency services were unable to access it, the department's prefecture said.
Inaccessible location
The body was reported by hunters and relatives of the man missing since Saturday evening in Saint Martin de Valamas, the prefecture told AFP.
“The location is currently inaccessible by police and fire units”
and the body could not be identified, she continued.
A new attempt to access it will take place on Wednesday morning.
According to a gendarmerie source, the missing person is the manager of a hydroelectric power station who had gone to check its installation.
The violent bad weather over the weekend in the South-East left six dead, including a four-year-old girl in Gard.
His 13-year-old brother was still missing Tuesday evening.