(UPDATE) PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil: Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled on Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil : Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled on Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes.Entire cities were underwater, with thousands of people cut off from the world by the floodwater, brought by days of torrential rains.
An aerial view of the flooded city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil on Sunday, May 5, 2024. After what one climatologist called 'a disastrous cocktail' of climate change and the El Niño weather phenomenon, more than 3,000 soldiers, firefighters and other rescuers were trying to reach residents, who were, in many cases, trapped without basic supplies such as running water or electricity.Civil defense officials said at least 105 people were missing in the latest of a string of catastrophic weather events to hit the South American nation.
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