A week later, one person was still missing, according to news website G1 citing Civil Protection.
Floods and landslides that hit southeastern Brazil a week ago have killed 64 people, according to the latest toll released by authorities today, with one person missing.
“So far we have confirmed 64 deaths,” among which “20 men, 17 women and 18 children” have been identified, Sao Paulo State authorities said.
More than 680mm of rain fell in 24 hours late last week in San Sebastião, a seaside resort 200km from Sao Paulo, twice the monthly average.
A week later, one person was still missing, according to news website G1 citing Civil Protection.
More than 2,400 people have been displaced, according to an official count.
The governor, Tarquisio de Freitas, admitted that the SMS warning system did not allow the tragedy to be avoided. He promised that sirens would be installed in high-risk areas.
Experts attribute the destruction, the abundance of this nature that the largest state in Latin America has experienced in recent years, to the consequences of climate change and uncontrolled urbanization.
In the country, 9.5 million people live in areas exposed to the risk of landslides or flooding, much of them in favelas — slums — that lack basic infrastructure such as drainage, the country’s National Disaster Warning and Monitoring Center recently estimated ( National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters, CEMADEN).
Source :Skai
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