Man, 77, dies as car swept away in France floods

A 77-year-old man trapped on a flooded road in a severe thunderstorm has drowned in his car in northern France, the fifth victim of days of flooding around France.

The man died after taking a road inundated by quickly rising floodwaters that swept his car away, Etienne Desplanques, from the administration of the Pas de Calais region, told BFM-TV.