Rescuers face difficult tasks on the French and Italian coasts, as the floods there added to the victims of the storm corpses swept away by heavy rains.
The French authorities stated that bodies were found from cemeteries around the Mediterranean coast, after a severe storm swept them away from a cemetery in a mountain valley in southern France, with the belief that some of them were washed away by water to the Italian coast on the Mediterranean.
The rain washed away dozens of graves and family cemeteries in the village of “Saint Dalmas de Tende”. A large part of the cemetery disappeared and was swallowed up by the river’s water.
And the heavy rain led to the accumulation of water in the area on the French-Italian border north of Nice, and reached a height of half a meter within 24 hours on Friday, to rise the level of rivers and the water overflowed and flowed through the narrow valleys in the region.
Reuters quoted the mayor of a village in Saint Dalmas de Tende, Jean-Pierre Vasalo, as saying that the storm was “terrible”.
He added, “The cemetery was erased … our families were swept away by the water, and about 150 people were swept away by the water.”
Four bridges connecting the two halves of the village collapsed in the midst of the water, houses were uprooted from their foundations, electricity towers fell, roads and railways were all cut off and helicopters became the only way to reach the area.
Source: Reuters
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