57 killed in 'terrifying' Brazil floods, 70 000 forced to flee their homes
Military members work in a flooded street in São Geraldo neighbourhood in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Neighbourhoods in the state of Rio Grande do Sul were flooded.Raging floods and mudslides have killed at least 57 people in southern Brazil and forced nearly 70 000 to flee their homes, the country's civil defence agency said on Saturday.
Fast-rising water levels in the state of Rio Grande do Sul were straining dams and particularly threatening economically important Porto Alegre, a city of 1.4 million. Rescue teams set up a base on the banks of the Guaiba River to receive rescued people in Porto Alegre, Rio da Grande do State, Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite said his state - normally one of Brazil's most prosperous - would need a"Marshall Plan" of heavy investment to rebuild after the catastrophe.
With waters starting to overtop a dike along another local river, the Gravatai, Mayor Sebastiao Malo issued a stern warning on social media platform X, saying:"Communities must leave!"In a live transmission on Instagram, Governor Leite said the situation was"absolutely unprecedented", the worst in the history of the state, home to agroindustrial production of soy, rice, wheat and corn.
The rains also affected the southern state of Santa Catarina, where one man died on Friday when his car was swept away by raging floodwaters in the municipality of Ipira.The devastating storms were the result of a"disastrous cocktail" of global warming and the El Niño weather phenomenon, climatologist Francisco Eliseu Aquino told AFP on Friday.
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