The security services and relief, engaged on the floods in the Var, discovered in Tanneron two bodies without life and the vehicle of the couple from Grasse, who was missing. This discovery takes the toll of bad weather in the Southeast to four dead people. A first body was found Sunday morning at the Muy. A second body had been discovered on the commune of Cabasse, in a car.
In addition, a 77 year old man is still missing in the town of Saint-Antonin-du Var, since Saturday morning.
A "Mediterranean episode" of rare intensity
Victims of a "Mediterranean episode" of rare intensity, the departments of Alpes-Maritimes and Var were hit by torrential rains accompanied by impressive waves on the coast between Friday and Sunday.
In some places of the Var it fell the equivalent of two to three months of rain in 24 to 48 hours. The whole area was placed in red vigilance by Météo France on Saturday and the sirens had even sounded in Nice so that the inhabitants stay at home.