Flood Deaths in Brazil Increases, Lula Visits Affected Areas | News [Video]

Severe flooding in southern Brazil has killed at least 76 people, while another 103 remain missing, authorities said Sunday at noon, 75 of them in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, near the Argentina and Uruguay border.

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Authorities are investigating whether six other deaths are related to the climate tragedy that has hit the south of the country since the beginning of the week and is already considered the worst natural disaster in the region’s history.

Agencia Brazil reports that rains that hit the Rio Grande do Sul since last week have affected more than 780,7 thousand people. Also, the nes agency says that the death toll surpassed the state’s last environmental catastrophe in September 2023, when 54 people were killed by an extratropical cyclone.

In Porto Alegre with the governor @EduardoLeite_. All powers and levels of government working together in this time of emergency. We will continue to …