A nine-year-old girl has died after being electrocuted in the shower in France, along with her stepdad who tried to save her.

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President Francois Hollande’s partner has set the French political establishment aghast with a tweet seen as a dig against his ex-partner.

THOUSANDS of firefighters and rescue workers searched house by house yesterday along France’s devastated Atlantic coast, trying to help those still stranded by a storm that smashed sea walls and killed at least 62 people across western Europe.

A VIOLENT storm with fierce rain and hurricane- force winds battered France, Spain and Portugal yesterday, leaving at least 45 people dead.