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Twenty-two dead in French Riviera floods
About a dozen people who had been reported missing Wednesday were accounted for Thursday, the administration said.
But the weather forecasting service Meteo France warned of thunderstorms on Thursday that could bring new heavy rainfall or hail.
Efforts to restore electricity on Thursday to the region failed, and more than 100,000 homes were still without power. Telephones and water service was also out in the town of Draguignan, the hardest-hit, as well as in neighboring towns. The Defense Ministry was helping bring drinking water to the region.
More than 1,400 people were evacuated by helicopter after the initial rains, including some people taken out of a flooded nursing home in Draguignan early on Thursday, the regional administration said.
The administration of the Draguignan penitentiary center said 455 prisoners have been transferred to other jails in southern France, after waters rose to 3 meters (10 feet) inside the facility.
All schools in the Draguignan area were closed on Thursday.
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