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Brazil floods kill over 39

BRAZIL: Floods after days of driving rain have killed at least 39 in northeastern Brazil, and left 1,000 unaccounted for and another 100,000 people homeless, authorities said Monday.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called a crisis cabinet meeting for Tuesday and said the government would make federal funds available to help the homeless.

“Up until the early afternoon we had 26 confirmed dead in Alagoas (state) and more than 1,000 people missing,” Alagoas Governor Teotonio Vilela Filho said, quoted on the official Agencia Brasil news agency.

“We are praying for the missing to be found alive. But we are very worried because bodies are starting to turn up on beaches and on riverbanks,” Vilela told reporters at a press briefing before meeting with Lula.

Civil defense officials in devastated Alagoas state said the Mundau River burst its banks in the town of Uniao dos Palmares, leaving at least 500 people unaccounted for there.

“Pernambuco state’s rivers all run out through Alagoas. Swollen as they were they devastated cities,” a distraught Vilela explained. Rio De Janeiro, Tuesday, AFP

 

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