The mayor of a large southern Brazilian city urges residents to adhere to water rationing as 80% lack running water following severe flooding. The disaster has claimed 90 lives with 130 missing.
Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva urged Congress to declare a state of public calamity due to heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul. The floods claimed 85 lives, with over 130 missing and around 150,000 displaced.
Floods in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state: 75 dead, over 100 missing, 155 injured, 88,000 displaced, 16,000 in shelters. Damage includes landslides, road closures, collapsed bridges, utility disruptions for 800,000.
Heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, claimed 39 lives, with 68 missing. Floods, the fourth disaster in a year, forced thousands to flee. The flooding surpassed 1941 levels, with some areas experiencing record-high water levels in nearly 150 years.
Hundreds of Sao Paulo, Brazil, residents struggled to find supplies after floods and mudslides. The disaster has killed at least 48 people, and left their communities isolated.