The torrential downpours that have battered Italy, France and Switzerland have left at least seven people dead,
Daily Mail reports.
Three people died after heavy rains triggered a landslide in southeastern Switzerland, police in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino said on Sunday.
Elsewhere in Switzerland, a man was found dead in a hotel in Saas-Grund in the southwest canton of Valais, with police saying that he was probably taken by surprise by a sudden rapid rise in floodwater.
In France, three people in their 70s and 80s died in the northeastern Aube region on Saturday when a falling tree crushed the car they were travelling in, the local authority said. A fourth passenger was in critical care, it added.
Meanwhile the Noaschetta river near Turin, in northern Italy, burst its banks after more than seven inches of rain fell and unleashed a 'water bomb' on the town of Noasca causing the access bridge to be flooded and the main road to be closed.
In the Lanzo Valleys, north-west Italy, it has been raining most of Sunday, which caused the Stura River to swell above safe levels, according to the Lastampa news site.
And in Lago della Torre, several landslides occurred and a shepherd was stuck at about 150 meters above sea level before being heroically rescued by firefighters.
Seven families who were at risk in two buildings near the Vassola stream had to be evacuated after it turned into a raging torrent.
Switzerland's civil security services said 'several hundred' people were evacuated in the southern canton of Valais and roads closed after the Rhone and its tributaries overflowed in different locations.
