Southern France floods: three dead in ‘vicious' storm
At least three people have died in floods caused by torrential rain and storms that battered southern France this week.
The bodies of a couple in their eighties were found in the Riviera resort of Le Lavandou and another person died after being trapped in a car further north in Vidauban.
The couple tried to leave their home but were swept away when floodwater suddenly surged, local officials said.
The other person who died was a passenger in a car that fell into a ditch after being driven on to a flooded country road. 'A local official tried to save the two people in the car but only succeeded in rescuing the driver,' said Claude Pianetti, the mayor of Vidauban.
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