The death toll from floods and heavy rain, which has blighted the Brazilian state of Bahia since November, rose to 20 as flooding intensified, causing two dams to burst and the displacement of an estimated 62,800 people, state officials say.
At least 358 people have been injured in the flooding, the Bahia state government said in a Monday statement. It has affected more than 470,000 people living in 116 towns."The infrastructure damage is enormous," Bahia state Gov. Rui Costa said Tuesday, as images of the affected area showed people salvaging belongings from their flood-hit homes.Costa warned of a"perfect storm" caused by the catastrophic effects of the flooding amid a two-pronged pandemic.
Costa said Sunday that the scale of flooding was like nothing he had seen in Bahia's recent history"given the amount of cities and houses involved. It's truly terrifying, there are so many houses and streets that are completely under water." People salvage their belongings from homes destroyed by flooding in Itapetinga.Destroyed homes are seen after flooding tore through Itapetinga, in Brazil's Bahia state.
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