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    Huge rescue effort after deadly storm barrels across France, Italy

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    Huge rescue effort after deadly storm barrels across France, Italy

    Heavy rains, brutal floods have left villages cut off from the world in Alpes Maritimes


    Published:  October 04, 2020 08:25 AFP

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    Roquebillihre, France: Two people died in Italy and eight were missing in France on Saturday after storms, torrential rain and flash floods battered the border area, washing away roads and houses, cutting off whole villages and triggering landslips, as hundreds of rescuers raced to find stranded survivors. Image Credit: AFP
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    Torrential rain of up to 50 centimetres (20 inches) and high winds crashed into the border area in the latest of a string of strong storms in recent years. Storm Alex barrelled into France's west coast on Thursday bringing powerful winds and rain across the country before moving into Italy, where regions across the north suffered an onslaught throughout Saturday. Image Credit: AFP
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    "I lost everything but we are alive," said Jennyfer, 29, from Roquebilliere in France's southern Alps. "There must be one room left in my house," she said after she returned following evacuation on Friday to survey the damage wrought by the Vesubie river. Image Credit: AFP
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    A volunteer firefighter died in Italy's Aosta Valley and a man was killed after his car was washed away in the river Sesia, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) further east. Italy had reported a large group of people missing after landslides hit the border area near the Col de Tende mountain pass in France. But late Saturday the Italian civil protection agency spokeswoman Mara Anastasi said 21 people had been found and evacuated by helicopter, including two Germans and their grandchildren. Image Credit: AFP
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    An emergency 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. Dozens of firefighters were trying to reach one Italian village by train after the road was shut. In France, the army and hundreds of rescuers were deployed to search for the missing, including using helicopters to transport aid and evacuate people where possible. Image Credit: AFP
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    AFP journalists who reached one of the worst-hit areas in the Vesubie valley saw roads that had been washed away by the waters leaving buildings teetering above the voids. "We have actually had houses wiped out," said Alpes-Maritimes prefect Bernard Gonzalez. Switzerland was also battered with record rainfall in some areas and powerful gusts, forcing the closure of roads and mountains. Image Credit: AFP
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    French Prime Minister Jean Castex, who inspected the damage around the city of Nice by helicopter, said there were eight people officially designated missing. But a great many more could not be contacted, he added. "I do not hide from you our deep concern about the final outcome of this episode," he said, adding that the government had triggered its emergency plan for handling natural disasters. Image Credit: AFP
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    Authorities in the Alpes-Maritimes region had been placed on alert Friday and around 12,000 people in three valleys to the north of Nice were without power early Saturday afternoon. Image Credit: AFP
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    In Roquebilliere, the floodwaters swept away two elderly people with their house. "The firefighters did not have enough rope, and even with our rope we could not reach the house, so it was too late to get to them and the house was suddenly swept away," resident Patrick Theus said. Image Credit: AFP
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    The head of Italy's Piedmont region said the storm was the most serious in those parts since a flood killed 70 people in 1994. The mayor of the northern Italian city of Ventimiglia, Gaetano Scullino, meanwhile said "a disaster of this kind has not happened since 1958". Image Credit: AFP
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    The damage in southeastern France, after heavy rains and floodings hit the Alpes-Maritimes department. Image Credit: AFP
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    The damage in southeastern France, after heavy rains and floodings hit the Alpes-Maritimes department. Image Credit: AFP
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    The damage in southeastern France, after heavy rains and floodings hit the Alpes-Maritimes department. Image Credit: AFP
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    The damage in southeastern France, after heavy rains and floodings hit the Alpes-Maritimes department. Image Credit: AFP

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