Floods ravaging southern Brazil have already displaced 207,800 people.

Severe floods that have hit the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul since last week have already displaced 207,800 people. The data was provided by the state governor, Eduardo Leite, who also confirmed the deaths of 95 people and the disappearance of another 131.

Of the total number of people forced to flee their homes due to the devastating floods that swept through hundreds of cities in the largest state in southern Brazil, 159,036 people were temporarily housed in the homes of relatives and friends, and hotels in areas where the flooding occurred. didn’t make it, or in other places that they made it themselves. But another 48,799 people had nowhere to go and were sheltered in makeshift shelters in schools, churches, gyms, public buildings and other reception centers set up by state and municipal governments or private organizations and volunteers, and in some cases they had already suffered a second death. once they are in a hurry to flee, since the waters have invaded the places where their shelters operated.

The number of people who have now lost their homes or been forced to leave them with little more than the clothes on their backs and no idea how they will find them when they return is four times higher than the figure recorded last September in the central region of Rio. Grande do Sul, which was hit by the state’s worst climate tragedy at the time, killing 54 people. Also, according to Governor Eduardo Leite, of the 497 municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul, 401 have already been affected by heavy rains and subsequent floods, affecting at least 1.4 million people to a greater or lesser extent, and the situation could get even worse , as the weather forecast predicts very heavy rain over the next few days.