{"id":54928,"date":"2019-12-16T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T03:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54928"},"modified":"2019-12-16T11:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T03:56:03","slug":"update-bad-weather-in-southwest-france-claims-third-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54928","title":{"rendered":"Update: Bad weather in southwest France claims third victim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/vid.alarabiya.net\/images\/2019\/12\/15\/d0b6248a-71d1-4b52-acae-45e2310246e7\/d0b6248a-71d1-4b52-acae-45e2310246e7_16x9_788x442.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">The Garonne river\u2019s overflooded bank following strong winds and heavy rains in Bordeaux<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BORDEAUX (France), Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Fierce storms in southwest France have claimed a third victim, authorities said, after a man in his forties was found dead in his submerged car two days after going missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy district attorney Laurent Bidault blamed the death on the weather, adding that the body had been found on Sunday afternoon near the flooded Adour river, east of Dax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The car was under water, invisible,&#8221; Bidault said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad weather hit the region on Friday, with gale-force winds and heavy rain leaving thousands of homes without electricity on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two men in their seventies had already been declared victims of the storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 70-year-old man died in the Pyrenees-Atlantique in the Basque Country on Friday when his vehicle struck a fallen tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Espiens in the Lot-et-Garonne region, also on Friday, a 76-year-old man was swept away by rising waters when he went out to fetch his mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rescuers found his body 24 hours later more than a kilometre from his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four departments in southwest France remained on flood alert Sunday. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garonne river\u2019s overflooded bank following strong winds and heavy rains in Bordeaux BORDEAUX (France), Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Fierce storms in southwest France have claimed a third victim, authorities said, after a man in his forties was found dead in his submerged car two days after going missing. Deputy district attorney Laurent Bidault blamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}