Authorities announced Saturday that landslides triggered by torrential rains killed at least 29 people in the northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
On Friday, two individuals were killed after they were washed away in river floods in Alagoas, another state in the region.
According to civil defense officials, flooding in Pernambuco has caused more than 1,000 residents to flee their homes.
Lt. Col. Leonardo Rodrigues, executive secretary of the Pernambuco civil defense organization, stated in an Instagram video that around 32,000 households in the state reside in regions at danger of landslides or flooding.
Flooding in Brazil
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Nine additional people have been injured, and many more are still missing, while almost 600 families have been displaced, as per the BBC.
Following an aerial reconnaissance of the flooded districts, So Paulo Governor Joo Doria has granted emergency money.
Heavy rains have killed more than 40 people in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais since the beginning of the rainy season.
One of the worst-affected locations in the Sao Paulo state is Franco da Rocha, where four people perished in a landslide and six others were saved.
Firefighters and medical personnel worked around the clock to search for casualties in the muck, but authorities fear up to 14 people are still missing.
Heavy rains have devastated other parts of Brazil in recent months, killing dozens and displacing thousands, with the north-eastern state of Bahia among the most impacted.
The floods also temporarily halted mining operations in Minas Gerais, where at least 15 people perished earlier this month.
Meteorologists believed that the heavy rain is caused by a summer occurrence known as the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ).
The terrible weather is also caused by La Nia, a climatic trend in the Pacific Ocean that may impact weather all across the world.
Climate change, according to experts, is also contributing to extreme weather occurrences throughout the planet.
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An increased number of people died
Over 100 people are missing or proven dead in Brazil, according to the authorities, after mudslides and massive floods caused by torrential rains ripped through many metropolitan districts in the country's northeastern region, as per Inquirer.
It was the fourth significant flooding episode in five months, highlighting a lack of urban planning in low-income communities across most of Brazil, where shantytowns are frequently built on unstable slopes.
The devastation comes as experts ponder if irregular rain cycles in Latin America's largest country are a result of climate change.
The state administration of Alagoas has declared an emergency in 33 municipalities as a result of the recent severe rainfall.
President Jair Bolsonaro said on Twitter that teams from the Ministry of Regional Development and the Armed Forces will be dispatched to the state as well as Alagoas to provide "relief and humanitarian support," as per abc News.
The magnitude of destruction shown through drone images
According to a statement posted on Twitter by the Federal Civil Defense agency, which is in charge of disaster management, 56 people have perished in the northeastern state of Pernambuco and one in the neighboring state of Alagoas as of Sunday afternoon. Another 56 persons were missing in Pernambuco.
According to the Federal Civil Defense agency, over 6,000 individuals had arrived at government-designated help locations in those two states, while another 7,000 were staying with friends or family.
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