A worn pair Germans missing since the floods that killed 20 people during the night of 3 to 4 October on the French Riviera has been found safe, said Monday the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture in release.
The couple had rented an apartment in Cannes but never went there, had previously said the prefecture. It was manifested on Monday morning with the German authorities and reported back to Germany to be “safe and sound,” he told AFP another source close to the case.
These two people have returned home and “had no notion of being sought,” said AFP chief of staff of the prefect, Francis Xavier Lauch.
The balance sheet amounts for deadly flood Nothing to twenty dead, including six French and four foreigners. “We no longer reporting of missing persons,” Mr Lauch said. “The balance sheet is consolidated,” he adds, but it is not yet considered final, he believes.
The highest price was paid by the town of Mandelieu-la -Napoule, where relief found the bodies of eight people trapped in underground car parks of several residences. The victims were trying to recover their vehicle for shelter. Among them were a Portuguese 47, an Italian of 57 years and six French, three women and three men, aged 67-77 years.
The youngest victims are a Ukrainian tourist 23 years, died in an underground car park of the Croisette in Cannes and also sought to recover his vehicle, and a French 31-year pastry at the Carlton in Cannes, Mougins died in a car accident due to bad weather.
The older victims died in the municipality of the city of Biot glass, where three French, aged 82, 91 and 94, drowned on the ground floor of a retirement home, overwhelmed by a torrent of mud. Two employees have nevertheless managed to put away a score of other residents of the institution.
The storm, particularly intense and located on a narrow urbanized coastal strip, made of very heavy damage hardware west of the department
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