2024-01-15 04:40:00
At least eleven people died in the city of Rio de Janeiroand one remains missingafter strong rains that affected that Brazilian city this morning.
The rainfall has already reached, with special force, the northern area of Rio and the surrounding municipalities of the metropolitan region, where the deaths were concentrated, as a result of the landslides, drownings and some electrocutions. “A woman also remained missing,” the agency reported this Sunday. AFP.
The damage caused by the rains led to the current mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Da Costa Paesto decree this Sunday the “emergency situation“.
In sections of Avenida Brasil, one of the main arteries of the city, the accumulated water reached overcome car hood and forced the road to be temporarily closed overnight.
A dozen bus lines were not working and at least four subway stations had to close temporarily due to the accumulation of water on the rails.
Some regions of the city recorded a accumulated more than 200 millimeters of rain in the last 24 hours, exceeding the forecast for all of January in one day.
“Following the guidance of President Lula, we are acting with Mayor Paes to guarantee all the support of the federal government to the population affected by the heavy rains,” he said. Waldez GóesMinister of Regional Development, on the X network.
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For their part, the Rio Fire Department responded to 200 rain-related events in the last 24 hours, according to a report published today, mostly to carry out rescues and interventions against floods and landslides.
The mayor of Rio recommended that residents “stay in their homes or safe places and avoid traveling to avoid hindering the work of public agents” and “putting their lives at risk.”
Meanwhile, the State Center for Monitoring and Alert of Natural Disasters warned in recent hours that “there is a very great risk” of landslides in eight municipalities in the state of Rio.
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Rescuers are looking for a woman who fell from a vehicle into the Botas River and was carried away by the current.
The firefighters, meanwhile, did not arrive in time to a request for help from a home in Acari and consequently could not save a young woman.
The body of a man who was buried on Rua Moraes de Pinheiro was found thanks to sniffer dogs in the northern part of the city.
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At the same time, a man died in São João de Meriti, due to an electric shock, and another drowned.
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