Carcans beach in 2018. - NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP

The body of a teenager was found Sunday on a beach in Carcans (Gironde), not far from the place where a forty-something and his daughter drowned and where another child of the family remained missing at sea, according to the gendarmerie .

"This morning we discovered the body of a young boy in the area where the tragedy took place," said the gendarmerie.

Research had been initiated

Thursday, three children and their parents were outside the supervised area, north of Carcans beach, when they found themselves in difficulty in the water, probably in a baïne, a kind of natural basin forming at low tide. , but which can then lead out to sea.

A 10-year-old child could have been brought back to the beach. But the 46-year-old father and 17-year-old daughter were swept away by the current, like a 13-year-old son. Rescuers quickly recovered the father, but he could not be revived. The searches, supported by a civil security helicopter then a military helicopter, then made it possible to recover the young girl's body. The 13-year-old son had remained untraceable despite searches.

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