French rescuers search for eight missing in floods after two killed in Italy

French authorities deployed about 1,000 firefighters, four military helicopters and troops on Sunday to help search for at least eight people still missing in a mountainous south-eastern region after devastating floods that killed two people in neighbouring Italy.

Floods washed away houses and destroyed roads and bridges surrounding the city of Nice on the French Riviera after almost a year’s average rainfall fell in less than 12 hours.

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