MONTPELLIER Floods threatened to sweep down on 100,000 people in southern France yesterday as the death toll from torrential rains rose to four.
Mr Bernard Monginet, prefect of the Herault department, said a wave of water was sweeping down local rivers "and the towns of Agde and Serignan, on the coast, east of Beziers, are threatened." Four hundred people were taken to safety during the night.