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Storm Franklin, which swept across northern France on Sunday February 20, claimed two lives. In Bricqueville-sur-Mer (Handle)a couple in their seventies, whose car was swept away by the rising waters, did not manage to get out.
The victims’ car was hoisted by divers out of the water on Monday, February 21 in the morning. The lifeless bodies of a couple, aged 70 and 74, at summer found in the middle of the night. Driven by the wind from Storm Franklin and the current, they had drifted 300 meters from a road covered by the sea at high tide. The victims called for help, but their vehicle remained invisible for a long time under several meters of water. The firefighter helicopter flew over the area for a long time before seeing it.
The couple lived nearby, they surely knew the road very well. Did they borrow it out of overconfidence? The signs are explicit as to the danger. But, according to locals, this is not the first accident in this place. “The road is now passable, but the inhabitants look with concern at the dune cordon, this barrier facing the sea which has been weakened by the last storms and which may have allowed a much stronger sea current to pass which may have played a role. role in the dramaconcludes journalist Thomas paga.
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