After the bad weather on Friday, in the Nice hinterland, help is still working to find the missing people.
At least four bodies were found on the Italian coast on Sunday.
the French and Italian authorities are now seeking to identify them.
At least four bodies were recovered on Sunday on the Mediterranean shores of Liguria, Ansa agency and other media said, adding that Italian and French authorities are jointly seeking to determine their identity.
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A team of investigators from the harbor master's offices, the carabinieri and the police "are in contact with the French authorities to give a name and a face" to the bodies washed up on the shores of the Italian Riviera, not far from the French coast, said Ansa, adding that the Ligurian authorities have not reported any missing so far.
A fifth body recovered in the Roya River would be that of a shepherd missing near the Col de Tende and whose nationality, French or Italian, did not seem formally established.
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