Europe 1 with AFP 12:41 p.m., March 15, 2024

The body of a 12-year-old child swept away on Saturday by a river in the Gard was found on Friday, downstream from those of his father and four-year-old sister, found previously, announced the Nîmes prosecutor, Cécile Gensac.

The body of a 12-year-old child swept away on Saturday by a river in the Gard was found on Friday, downstream from those of his father and four-year-old sister, found previously, announced the Nîmes prosecutor, Cécile Gensac.

“The body of the last missing child, aged 12 and a half, was discovered at the end of the morning by soldiers from the Gard gendarmerie group,” Ms. Gensac said in a press release.

This discovery brings the death toll from last weekend's bad weather in the south-east of France to eight.

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