Tag: Seine river

Paris : The Seine river, which runs through Paris, kept rising on Sunday and led to the evacuation of about 1,500 people, police said. Water level remained at a high level in the Paris region where 240 communes remained on alert of flooding. About 1,500 citizens were called to leave their homes in Ile-de-France region including the French capital and surrounding zones, Xinhua quoted Michel Delpuech, chief of the Paris police body, as saying. "The waters will only go away slowly," Delpuech said, stressing that "everyone knows what he must do." "A maximum...