Juigné-sur-Loire

Juigné-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [ʒɥiɲe syʁ lwaʁ] ⓘ, literally Juigné on Loire) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

On 15 December 2016 it was merged into the new commune Les Garennes sur Loire.

[2] On 18 July 1969 Juigné-sur-Loire was the site of a tragic accident that killed 19 young teenagers from nearby Angers.

The children, part of a group of sixty 13- and 14-year-olds on an outing from a recreational center, had been wading in the Loire river when the gravel riverbed beneath them gave way and swept them downstream into the deeper waters.

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