NSTworld 15 dead as torrential rain hits Brazil
Violent storms in recent days have dumped a month’s worth of rain on some areas in a matter of hours, devastating poor neighborhoods on the southern coast of Sao Paulo state and on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the country’s second-biggest city.
One of the dead was a firefighter who was working on a rescue operation when he was killed by a landslide. Several highways were blocked by fallen trees and landslides, including some linking Santos, the largest port in South America, to Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city and economic capital. In Rio de Janeiro, authorities said the death toll had risen to at least five after three days of violent rain that swept away houses and cars and left some communities covered in water or mud.The disaster turned political in Rio when the city’s Mayor Marcelo Crivella, a far-right evangelical Christian bishop, blamed residents for the flooding.
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