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A week after killer storms struck France, half a million homes remained without electricity Sunday, officials said.
The death toll in France rose to 88 after a couple was found in a house whose roof had caved in.
At one stage last week, 3.4 million homes had no power. The head of French power company Electricite de France said Sunday that restoring power in rural communities was proving difficult.
“We have to face up to a situation which is more complicated today,” Francois Roussely said. “We are progressing far slower in the countryside.”
The power company has said it will offer a year’s worth of free service to people who were forced to spend New Year’s without electricity because of the storms.
