The couple of Germans missing since the floods on the night of 3 to 4 October has been found safe, said the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture in a statement. The couple had rented an apartment in Cannes, but not be made. He returned to Germany.
- Ghislaine Milliet with AFP
- Published 10/12/2015 | 10:49, updated the 10/12/2015 | 11:12
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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,” said another source familiar with the matter.
20 dead, including 16 French and 4 foreign
The results of the deadly flood rises for now twenty dead, including six French and four foreigners. It shall be final when the searches and cleaning operations are officially over.
The highest price was paid by the town of Mandelieu-la-Napoule, where relief found the bodies of eight people in underground car parks of several nearby residences. The victims had gone to retrieve their vehicle.
Victims in towns
They included a Portuguese 47, an Italian of 57 years, and three women and three elderly French men 67 to 77 years.
The youngest victims are a Ukrainian tourist 23 years, died in an underground car park of the Croisette in Cannes also seeking to recover his vehicle, and a French 31-year pastry at Carlton Cannes Mougins died in a car accident due to bad weather.
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 of the evening of Saturday, October 3, particularly intense and located on a narrow urbanized coastal strip, made of heavy material damage to the west of the department.
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