One week after the torrential rains, the consequent ones landslides and floods which caused extensive damage to PetropolisIn southeastern Brazil, the death toll rose to 186 on Tuesday, authorities said, continuing investigations to find dozens of missing people.
Since the disaster on February 15, rescue teams have retrieved the bodies of “113 men and 73 women,” police said. Of the total, “the 33 victims were children,” according to the same source.
Authorities say 69 people are still missing. Their number has decreased in recent days, as some more of the bodies were identified and families located their own bodies.
More than 800 people who were forced to flee their homes because they are in high-risk areas continued to be accommodated in temporary accommodation centers yesterday.
A week ago, in a few hours, in the tourist city about 60 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro, it rained with a volume almost equal to that of the precipitation of the whole of February at the historical average.
The landslides destroyed dozens of houses built on hillside, while torrents uprooted trees, overturned cars, turned roads into rivers.
Over the past three months, Brazil has been hit by extremely deadly weather – in the states of Bahia (northeast), Minas Gerais and S Πάo Paulo (southeast) – with dozens of victims, experts linking it to climate change and global warming.
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