Heavy rains that have lashed the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo and the capital region every evening since last Monday led to the death of another person this Friday. This is the third confirmed death since the daily downpours began, and two people are missing, one of them a six-year-old boy.
The fatal victim this Friday was a 49-year-old man, a resident of the Riacho Grande area in São Bernardo do Campo, a city neighboring São Paulo. The slope behind his house slid around 11pm local time, two o’clock this Saturday morning in Lisbon, and hit the back room where he was staying.
His wife and daughter, who were at the front of the house, were not injured but were forced to leave the house due to structural damage caused by the landslide. In addition to this house, Civil Defense officials have closed six other nearby houses, although none of them are in risk areas.
Earlier in the week, another man also died in Greater Sao Paulo due to another landslide caused by heavy rain, and on Wednesday a driver was electrocuted in the elegant Moema district, south of the capital Sao Paulo, when a car was left stranded on street completely flooded with water, not realizing that the power line had broken and fallen on the car. In addition to these already confirmed deaths, this Saturday firefighters continued to search for a man whose car was carried away this Friday by floods into one of the many rivers that flow through São Paulo, as well as a boy who was also taken by floods. to another river, this time in Juquitiba, in Greater São Paulo.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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