"I do not hide from you our deep concern about the final outcome of this episode," said prime minister Jean Castex, adding "I have been particularly shocked by what I saw today." Amid concerns that the death toll could rise, Castex said that the government had triggered its emergency plan for handling natural disasters. "The roads and about 100 houses were swept away or partially destroyed," he told French news channel BFM. Nice mayor Christian Estrosi called it the worst flooding disaster in the area for more than a century, after flying over the area by helicopter. The storm ravaged several villages around the city of Nice on the French Riviera. An emergency services spokesman in France said that around 40 people stranded on roads by the landslides had sheltered in an old train station and then been airlifted to safety. The French army and hundreds of rescuers were deployed to search for the missing, including using helicopters to transport aid and evacuate people where possible.
French authorities said at least eight people were missing, including two firemen whose vehicle was carried away by a swollen river, according to local witnesses. CLICK: THE CREWLESS, SOLAR-POWERED 'MAYFLOWER' MAKING THE SAME JOURNEY AS ITS HISTORIC NAMESAKEįrance suffered its first fatality on Sunday, a shepherd whose body was pulled from a river near the border.
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