Two children, aged 4 and 12, as well as their father, were swept away on Saturday evening by the waters of the Gardon while trying to cross a submersible bridge in Dions.
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The child was swept away by a swollen river. In the Gard, “the body of the last missing child, aged 12, was discovered late in the morning”announced the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, Friday March 15. The discovery was made “downstream of the two previous discoveries of the father and the 4-year-old minor”specifies the press release.
Two children, aged 4 and 12, as well as their father, were swept away on Saturday around 11:30 p.m. by the waters of the Gardon while trying to cross a submersible bridge in Dions. Only the mother, aged 40, was able to be airlifted. Dozens of Gard firefighters and gendarmes had been deployed along the Gardon to find this missing family.
This latest discovery brings the death toll from last weekend’s bad weather in the south-east of France to eight deaths: six in Gard, one in Ardèche and one in Hérault.
