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Breaking: Floods in Brazil displace 100,000 – 44 dead
photo by Globovisión (source: Flickr Creative Commons)
Flooding and mudslides in the northeast of Brazil have resulted in the deaths of at least 44 people, with as many as 1,000 more missing. Torrents following heavy rains over the past three days have swept away some 40,000 homes in the region, displacing 180,000 people.
From an Al Jazeera English report:
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president, has called a crisis cabinet meeting on Tuesday and said the government would make federal funds available to help the homeless.
The death toll is feared to rise in the Brazil’s northeastern states of Alagoas and Pernambuco, where the flooding is most severe.
From a report by the AFP:
Churches, schools and hospitals were underwater, or simply disappeared in the floods that turned streets into angry rivers in a region already wracked by extreme poverty.
The below video report from Australia’s ABC News contains graphic footage of the violent floods in Northeast Brazil. Residents struggle as floodwaters turn streets into rivers, destroying buildings, roads and railway lines.
Brazil floods displace thousands
by Graham Land
Tags: Alagoas, Brazil, death, displace, flooding, floods, northeast, report
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