Eight dead in northeast Brazil floods
SAO PAULO: Torrential rains drenching the northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco caused at least eight deaths, mostly people carried away in mudslides, civil defense officials said Monday. In one incident Sunday, a house outside the state capital Recife was buried in a mudslide, killing four members of one family.
An estimated 500 families were left homeless, and officials ordered evacuations in many areas.
Weather officials said that the Monday forecast called for more heavy rains, which have also cut off many roads in the state.
Elsewhere in Latin America, two people died and three were missing in floods in Guatemala, officials said. In southern Mexico, three people died and as many as 200,000 were displaced by flooding and mudslides in the state of Oaxaca, the state governor Gabino Cue said. Officials expected more heavy rains in southern Mexico in the coming days.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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