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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Snowfall in eastern France are three dead

The first snowfall of the season caused the death of three people and knocked out power to 100,000 homes in the east of France , where Météo- France provided Thursday, November 21 in the morning to remove the orange alert warning for snow and ice in the coming hours .

The snow caused a car accident on the A31 in Haute-Marne in the night from Wednesday to Thursday , which resulted in one death and two serious injuries. From Morocco , the bus went to Brussels and Düsseldorf ( West Germany ) with a score of passengers.

Wednesday night, a technician ERDF died indirectly due to inclement weather , being electrocuted when troubleshooting on the low voltage network in the Puy -de- Dome .

Thursday morning , a young woman died in a car accident due to snow near Mulhouse (Haut- Rhin), Has it learned from firefighters. The accident occurred shortly after 8 am , in the municipality of Schweighouse- Thann. The driver, aged 20 , his car skidded and is embedded in a tree at the edge of the road, do you the same source .

100,000 homes without electricity

Weather France lifted the orange alert for snow and ice on the last four alpine departments ( Alpes-de -Haute- Provence , Isère , Savoie and Haute- Savoie) . There is therefore no longer any department concerned with this orange alert .

Thursday at 8 am, some 100,000 homes were still without electricity in France, 65,000 in the Rhône- Alpes region , 13,000 in Auvergne, 13000 also Lozère , 6000 in Burgundy and Franche -Comté in 3000 , according to one count of ERDF .

" We do our best to restore power as quickly as possible , with 1,200 people mobilized ," said a spokesman for ERDF, but noted that the situation was still " much fluctuate " in the coming hours , including Rhone Alps.

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