France floods kill 22

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DRAGUIGNAN, Jun 17 (AP): Rescuers dug through mud-filled cars and wreckage for bodies in France's Cote d'Azur on Thursday after the worst floods in two centuries killed 22 people.
Authorities in the Var region raised the death toll to 22 on Thursday from an earlier count of 20 after the floodwaters engulfed streets in torrents of mud and drove people onto the roofs of their homes.
They did not rule out a further rise in the toll while picking through the wreckage.
A new storm hit the region early Thursday as rescuers searched for a handful of people still missing and helicopters circled overhead.
The worst storms since 1827 sent a torrent of muddy brown water surging through Draguignan, a Provence town of 40,000 people where 11 people were found dead.