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A man speaks on a mobile phone srrounded by furniture and appliances damaged by flooding in the city of Biot, southeastern France, on October 5, 2015. Volunteers and firefighters began the gruelling task on October 5 of cleaning up French Riviera towns strewn with mud and debris, as the death toll from floods which tore through the region rose to 19. Rivers of water gushed through some of the world's wealthiest streets, scattering cars hundreds of metres from where they were parked and destroying businesses in what were described as "apocalyptic" scenes. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAGNENETJEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAGNENET/AFP/Getty Images