{"id":22713,"date":"2022-05-31T07:11:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22713"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","slug":"brazil-floods-and-landslides-at-least-91-and-many-more-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/31\/brazil-floods-and-landslides-at-least-91-and-many-more-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil floods and landslides: At least 91 and many more missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death toll from floods in north-eastern\u00a0Brazil\u00a0could rise to more than 100 after authorities in Pernambuco state confirmed 91 deaths with many more people missing.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of state and federal rescue workers would resume searching on Tuesday for 26 people unaccounted for, said officials.<\/p>\n

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Heavy rains lashed Pernambuco last week,\u00a0triggering landslides on Friday\u00a0that wiped away housing in poor neighbourhoods or favelas built on hillsides that are prone to such natural disasters.<\/p>\n

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Jair Bolsonaro in a helicopter to see the damage caused by landslides and floods in northern Brazil.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Clauber Cleber Caetano\/PRESIDENCY OF BRAZIL\/EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Monday, Brazil\u2019s president, Jair Bolsonaro, flew over the affected area of Pernambuco\u2019s capital, Recife, and neighbouring Jaboatao dos Guararapes. Speaking to reporters afterward, he said that landing in the helicopter was not possible due to the soaked soil.<\/p>\n

He noted Brazil had recently experienced similar disasters in the mountains above Rio de Janeiro, in southern Bahia state, and in Minas Gerais state.<\/p>\n

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A policeman amid the debris of a landslide in Jardim Monte Verde in Recife.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Sergio Maranhao\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cUnfortunately, these catastrophes happen in a continent-sized country,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re all obviously sad. We express our sympathy to family members. Our bigger objective is to comfort families and also, with material means, attend to the population.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government is moving to make funds available to municipalities that have declared a state of emergency, Daniel Ferreira, the minister of regional development, said at the press conference. He also highlighted a new credit line available to cities afflicted by such disasters.<\/p>\n

Experts say climate change contributes to more intense rainfall, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has classified Recife\u2019s metropolitan region as one of the world\u2019s most vulnerable cities. The low-lying metro region is set at the delta of three rivers, features floodplains and a network of dozens of canals and is home to about 4 million people.<\/p>\n

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Rescue workers carry the body of a victim in Recife.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Joao Carlos Mazella\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In March, Recife became the first Latin American city to sign on for participation in a programme that will create insurance against climate disasters created by a network of local and regional governments and financed by German development bank KfW.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s civil defence authority said the flooding had displaced 5,000 people from their homes, and reinforced its alert about the continuing risk of landslides. Rain has continued, albeit with less intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death toll from floods in north-eastern\u00a0Brazil\u00a0could rise to more than 100 after authorities in Pernambuco state confirmed 91 deaths with many more people missing. Hundreds of state and federal rescue workers would resume searching on Tuesday for 26 people unaccounted for, said officials. Heavy rains lashed Pernambuco last week,\u00a0triggering landslides on Friday\u00a0that wiped away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,12],"tags":[7358,559,2422,11583,9331,7703,3862,7234,10418,5183,7076,5846,10427,6738,5455,5787,2264,8004,9390,10598,11715,603,3642,4317,6831,7964,11973,10917,9374,7574,3805,10716,7887,7398,6853,8609,12337,823,5807,11533,3954,36],"class_list":["post-22713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary","category-world-news","tag-bank","tag-bolsonaro","tag-brazil","tag-capital","tag-city","tag-classified","tag-climate-change","tag-death","tag-death-toll","tag-debris","tag-delta","tag-displaced","tag-epa","tag-families","tag-family","tag-flood","tag-government","tag-heavy-rains","tag-helicopter","tag-homes","tag-housing","tag-jair-bolsonaro","tag-landslide","tag-metropolitan","tag-missing","tag-north","tag-one","tag-poor","tag-population","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-rain","tag-rainfall","tag-rains","tag-recife","tag-regional-development","tag-rio","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-risk","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-will","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50825,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions\/50825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}