At least 16 people have been killed in and around the French Riviera after sudden heavy rains prompted flooding, trapping some in cars and in a retirement home.
Francois Hollande, the French president, said in a statement on Sunday that people were found dead in the towns of Cannes, Biot, Golfe-Juan and Mandelieu-la-Napoule in the southeast.
Heavy flooding along the Cote d'Azur in France's southeast saw the River Brague burst its banks close to the city of Antibes, sending deadly waves crashing into a nearby home for the elderly, killing three people.
A woman in her sixties also died on the street in the city of Cannes when huge storms hit the region on Saturday night, sending water and debris coursing down submerged roads in the famous festival town and in neighbouring Nice.