A 63-year-old driver died Thursday night in the town of Roche, in northern Isère, after the fall of a tree that also injured a 27-year-old man, according to news reports. prefecture.
The sexagenarian was trying to move a fallen tree with the weight of the snow around 19 hours, with the reinforcement of other people, when a second destabilized tree also fell on them, according to the same source, confirming information Dauphine Libere . The second victim was evacuated to the hospital center of Bourgoin-Jallieu.
In addition, in Isère, Drôme and Ardèche, more than 140,000 homes are without electricity because of the same phenomenon of heavy snow.