প্রকাশ: 29/05/2022
At least 35 people
died amid heavy rainfall in northeastern Brazil on Friday and Saturday, as
downpours lashed two major cities on the Atlantic coast, in what is the South
American nation's fourth major flooding event in five months.
In the state of Pernambuco, at least 33 people had died as
of Saturday afternoon, as rains provoked landslides that wiped away hillside
urban neighbourhoods, according to the state's official Twitter account.
Another 765 people were forced to leave their homes, at least temporarily,
according to the state government.
Authorities in the neighbouring state of Alagoas had
registered two deaths, according to Brazil's federal emergency service.
In late December and early January, dozens were killed and
tens of thousands displaced when rains hammered Bahia state, also located in
northeastern Brazil. At least 18 died in flooding in the southeastern state of
Sao Paulo later in January. In February, torrential downpours in the mountains
of Rio de Janeiro state killed over 230.
While much of Brazil spent the majority of 2021 in a severe
drought, unusually intense rains started to arrive in the final months of the
year.
The often-deadly flooding that followed has provoked debate
over the potential role of climate change in Brazil's volatile weather pattern
and has focused attention on the nation's often-haphazard urban planning.
Many of the deaths on Friday and Saturday occurred in
Pernambuco state capital Recife. As in many urban areas in Brazil, many of
Recife's neighbourhoods have been built in locations vulnerable to land and
mudslides.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was putting together a
federal task force to send to Pernambuco on Saturday, according to local media.
His main opponent in an October presidential election,
leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, lamented the flooding on Twitter.
"My solidarity to the families in the Recife
metropolitan area who are suffering from the strong rains," he wrote.
– Reuters
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