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Four people died over the weekend when violent storms swept southern France, authorities said Monday, as rescue services continued their search for three missing people, including two children.
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On Sunday, a man was found dead in the village of Gagnieres in the Gard department in his car that had been swept away by floods, authorities said.
Also on Sunday, two women died in a separate incident when their car got caught in the raging current of a river.
The fourth confirmed victim, a man whose body was found Monday, is believed to be the father of a family of four who tried to cross a flooded bridge over the river Gardon by car in Dions, near the southwestern city of Nimes.
His wife was rescued and taken to hospital, but their two children, four and 13 years old, are still missing.
Regional authorities said the car's driver appeared to have ignored a warning sign set up at a bridge and tried to cross before police had been able to set up barriers to block access.
"There were probably cases of individual behaviour that was not totally appropriate," the secretary-general of the Gard department, Frederic Loiseau, told reporters.
Around 110 firefighters and 120 gendarmes have been involved in the search, backed up by helicopters, drones, search dogs and divers.
In the neighbouring Ardeche department, the manager of a hydroelectric power station who went to check on the facility has also been missing since Saturday evening in the village of Saint Martin de Valamas.
In another Ardeche village, two houses collapsed in a landslide. Nobody was hurt.
Southern France regularly falls victim to sudden storms. In the worst recent incident 22 people died in gale-force winds and flooding in 2022.