Seven dead after storms lash France, Switzerland and Italy

The Rhone in Chippis, Switzerland, overflowed due to ferocious storms and torrential rains, leading to flooding of a highway and a railway line close by.The Rhone in Chippis, Switzerland, overflowed due to ferocious storms and torrential rains, leading to flooding of a highway and a railway line close by.

A man was also found dead in a hotel in Saas-Grund in the south-west canton of Valais, police said, adding that he was probably taken by surprise by a sudden rapid rise in floodwater. Another man was also missing in Valais, police said. Emergency services were assessing the best way to evacuate 300 people who had arrived for a football tournament in Peccia, while almost 70 more were being evacuated from a holiday camp in the village of Mogno.

The poor weather was making rescue work particularly difficult, police had said earlier, with several valleys inaccessible and cut off from the electricity network.In the western canton of Valais, the civil security services said several hundred people were evacuated and roads closed after the Rhone and its tributaries overflowed in different locations.

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