TOPSHOT – An aerial image taken on June 30, 2024 exhibits the A9 motorway A9 partially flooded close to Sierre, western Switzerland.
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Ferocious storms and torrential rain that lashed France, Switzerland and Italy this weekend have left seven individuals lifeless, native authorities mentioned on Sunday.

Three individuals of their 70s and 80s died in France’s northeastern Aube area on Saturday when a tree crushed the automobile they had been travelling in throughout fierce winds. A fourth passenger was in essential care.

In neighbouring Switzerland, 4 individuals have died and one other is lacking.

Three had been killed after torrential rains triggered a landslide within the southeast, police within the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino mentioned.

A person was additionally discovered lifeless in a lodge in Saas-Grun within the southwest canton of Valais, police mentioned, including that he was most likely taken abruptly by a sudden fast rise in floodwater.

One other man can also be lacking in Valais, police mentioned.

The civil safety providers mentioned “a number of hundred” folks had been evacuated in Valais and roads closed after the Rhone and its tributaries overflowed in several areas.

Emergency providers had been assessing the easiest way to evacuate 300 individuals who had arrived for a soccer match in Peccia, whereas nearly 70 extra had been being evacuated from a vacation camp within the village of Mogno.

In northern Italy’s Aosta Valley, web customers shared photographs of spectacular floods and swollen rivers dashing down mountain slopes.