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Brazil floods death toll rises to 83, dozens remain missing | |
By Jack Guy and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN | |
Updated: | |
10:53 AM EDT, Mon May 6, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
The death toll from a series of in the southern Brazilian state of | |
Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 83, the state’s civil defense | |
unit said Monday. | |
Authorities are also investigating another four deaths to determine if | |
they were related to the storms. | |
A further 276 people are reportedly injured and at least 111 people are | |
missing, while at least 121,000 people have been displaced, according | |
to the Civil Defense of Rio Grande do Sul. | |
The disaster has affected more than 850,000 people in 345 | |
municipalities, destroying homes, roads and bridges. | |
CNN spoke to local residents and evacuees who reported seeing dead | |
bodies still in the flood water, likely not yet counted in the death | |
toll. | |
Col. José Carlos Sallet, subcommander of Rio Grande do Sul Military | |
Firefighters, told CNN on Sunday that approximately 1,000 firefighters | |
are working on rescue missions. | |
“When the rain stops, they have been doing short operations to save | |
as many people as possible. Yesterday (Saturday) were we able to | |
intensify operations,” Sallet said. | |
Images show muddy brown waters rising as high as rooftops in some | |
areas, while rescue teams were out with inflatable rafts, taking people | |
and pets on board. | |
Rio Grande do Sul has been increasingly hit by extreme weather events | |
in recent years, and at least 54 people died in the state in September | |
after it endured a sub-tropical cyclone. | |
The climate crisis, caused primarily by humans burning fossil fuels, is | |
supercharging extreme weather around the world, making many events and | |
more frequent. | |
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