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ICYMI: At least 35 people died amid heavy rainfall in North Eastern Brazil over the weekend. Heavy down pours lashed two major cities on the Atlantic coast, in what is the South American nation’s fourth major flooding event in only five months.

People in a canoe cross a car on a flooded street during floods caused by heavy rain in Maraba, Para state [File image]People in a canoe cross a car on a flooded street during floods caused by heavy rain in Maraba, Para state [File image]

According to the Pernambuco state’s official Twitter account, 33 people died on Saturday afternoon as rains provoked landslides that wiped away hillside urban neighbourhoods. As in many urban areas in Brazil, many of Recife’s neighbourhoods have been built in locations vulnerable to land and mudslides.Authorities in the neighbouring state of Alagoas had registered two deaths, according to Brazil’s federal emergency service.

Torrential downpours in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro state killed over 230 in February. While much of Brazil spent the majority of 2021 in a severe drought, unusually intense rains arrived in the final months of the year.

 

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