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Bad weather in the Gard: the body of the 12-year-old boy was found

2024-03-15T11:47:31.526Z

Highlights: 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.


The death toll from the bad weather which hit the South-East on March 9 and 10 now stands at seven deaths.


He had been missing since Saturday.

The body of the 12-year-old boy was found by emergency services in Gard, the local prosecutor announced this Friday.

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.

The body of a man discovered Monday has been identified as the father of the two young victims.

A woman, the girl's partner and mother, is the only survivor of the tragedy.

Their car was swept away on Saturday evening around 11:30 p.m. while trying to cross a submersible bridge over the Gardon.

Their vehicle had entered after signs had already been installed to warn of the danger and prohibit passage, but before a barrier was put in place to block access to motorists, detailed the authorities.

A man died in Ardèche

Another 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.

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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 must 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.

Source: leparis

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