<- Hard dé e: 0.015971899032593 sec -> Very violent storms and torrential rains have killed four people washed away in a camping Lamalou-les-Bains (Hérault) during the night Wednesday to Thursday.
Four 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, has killed four people in the Hérault according to an updated mid-day balance sheet.
This is four campers who were Lamalou-les-Bains when they were suddenly swept away by the rising waters. Two occupants, a man and a woman, were found dead in two different campers. A pedestrian at the scene was also swept away by the flood. In the morning of relief officials on the ground have reported two new bodies discovered in another caravan or motorhome, five in total, but this information was not confirmed by the prefecture.
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 died that 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 four dead and two missing. The exceptional flood Bitoulet began shortly before midnight, said the mayor, “upstream of our common (…) trees have a natural dam and later dropped the dam,” said he said. A wave “of more than two meters,” then “placed on our campsite,” where hundreds of tourists were staying, all French, “the motorhomes have been displaced, some wanted to go out”
. In the morning, thirty to forty inches of mud covered the tracks of the municipality where trees 60-70 inches in diameter fell, said Philippe Tailland. At the entrance of the village, in the middle of the river, a huge pile of branches, mud and various detritus was surmounted by a car. Many other vehicles or caravans were overthrown in the wilderness camping now, offering a scene of desolation. The Bitoulet carted various miscellaneous objects such as cushions.
Anne Cotte, a resident of sixty years, described” a phenomenon never seen here. ” “There has been flooding there twenty years but not on this scale,” said she assured. On each side of the river, firefighters and residents were busy pumping water in homes, while a helicopter flew over the area.
Condolences Manuel Valls, Bernard Cazeneuve waited at the scene. Prime Minister Manuel Valls expressed his condolences to the families of victims, and welcomed “the commitment of services mobilized to ensure the safety of life and property.” He recalled that the alert was continuing on Thursday and stressed the need for all to comply with the rules of caution issued by Meteo France.
Schools of Herault should remain open but according to the prefecture school transport were to take the children using them at home at midday, due to more rain expected in the afternoon after the lull of the morning. The prefecture announced a “strong recovery from the weather to 14 hours is expected to continue the next night and within 48 hours.” The Hérault was kept in amber alert, courses Lez and Herault (river) being monitored closely.
The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, “which is informed by permanently last night of relief, had to go to Lamalou-les-Bains, in the next few hours, at the end of the parliamentary debate, “the ministry said.
258 firefighters mobilized overnight in Herault. In addition, 258 firefighters had to intervene no less than 200 times last night in the département of Hérault. Fifty people have also had to be accommodated in emergency after found trapped in their car near the town of Ganges. Several county roads and the A75 were cut due to flooding.
More than 150 people were supported and the other transferred to a municipal hall Bédarieux, said the prefecture.
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.
VIDEO. Lamalou-les-Bains: Mayor Philippe Tailland returns to the drama (France 2)
VIDEO. Weather in the South: the impressive images witnesses BFMTV
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