<- Hard dé e: 0.016329050064087 sec -> Very violent storms and torrential rains have killed five people washed away in a camping Lamalou-les-Bains (Hérault) during the night Wednesday to Thursday.
Five killed in a camping Lamalou-les-Bains (Hérault). The prefecture of the Hérault confirmed Thursday morning France Bleu Hérault information. The storms that swept the south of France on Wednesday evening and in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, left five victims in the Herault.
There are five campers who were Lamalou -les-Bains when they were suddenly swept away by the rising waters. The first report on Thursday morning, reported three dead and two missing as explained Frederic Loiseau, director of office of the Prefect of Herault, interviewed Thursday morning on BFM TV: “I confirm that three people have died this night at a campsite Lamalou-les-Bains. Due to heavy rains, a sudden rise in water levels was recorded on Bitoulet, a small river that flows into the Orb, due to rupture of an ice jam (note: accumulation of debris at a flood, branches, tree trunks …) . A torrent is formed and carried caravans and motorhomes this site. The tragedy occurred at about 2 am “The chief of staff also said that two people are missing.” We are always actively looking for two people, a mother and daughter aged 34, who were in this camp while firefighters have rescued 156 people, put away as a precaution. “
The balance sheet is much heavier with five dead but the prefecture of the Hérault did not specify whether the two additional deaths are the two wanted persons after the rising waters.
In addition, firefighters had to intervene no less than 200 times last night throughout the department of Herault. Fifty people have also had to be accommodated in emergency after found trapped in their car near the town of Ganges.
A worn septuagenarian disappeared in the Gard. Due to inclement weather and severe storms recorded Wednesday and Thursday, a septuagenarian is also missing in the Gard department in Saint-Laurent-le-mining, said firefighters.
The storms also knocked out power 6,500 homes, says the prefecture of Gard.
VIDEO. Weather in the south, three dead and two missing in a campsite (BFM TV)
A septuagenarian dies drowned in the Aveyron. A woman of 76 years is drowned late Wednesday afternoon in the southeast of the Aveyron, struck by severe storms and flooding as the Gard and Herault. The Ministry of Interior reported that the woman was found on the banks of Dourdou Arnac in the southeastern department of Herault close.
The woman was on a bridge She looked below and fell. She later died drowned in the river, said the rescue. According to fire department she was found by her family, but firefighters prevented 25 to 18 h could not do anything to revive her.
The tragedy happened when the flood began Dourdou to decline by mid-day but the Arnac-sur-Dourdou site at 520 meters above sea level is particularly enclosed between two mountains of 900 and 750 meters and rising water there was particularly sensitive after the rains that have reached 160 mm and a cumulative total, according to firefighters.
orange alert lifted in the Gard and Herault prolonged. The orange alert due to rainstorms and flood risk has been lifted in the Gard but prolonged in Herault, said Thursday morning Weather France.
In its bulletin 4 h 30, Météo France said that the orange alert was “prolonged” in the department of Herault where rainstorms, after a lull in late night, will intensify “again from mid -day “and persist until the night of Thursday to Friday” where they should be further strengthened. “
The orange alert flood remains in effect for the Dourdou and Sorgue in the department of Aveyron and the Lez and the Orb in the Herault.
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