More than 4,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the state of Pernambuco

Transfer of the body of a victim in Recife (AFP)

The number of deaths due to the heavy rainsthat have hit the state of Pernambuco< since the beginning of this week /b>, in the northeast of Brazil, rose to 44, while the number of disappeared rose to 56, confirmed the Government this Sunday.

Likewise , More than 4,000 people living in risk areas were forced to leave their homes, according to the Minister of Regional Development, Daniel Ferreira, during a press conference in Recife, the state capital.

< p class=”paragraph”>“With the updated information I have, we have recorded 44 dead, 56 missing, 25 injured, 3,957 homeless and 533 displaced,” reported Ferreira.

Most of the victims died during the landslide that occurred on Saturday in the metropolitan region of Recife, the most affected by the storm that severely punishes several states in northeastern Brazil, mainly Pernambuco.

The last official part, from Saturday afternoon, spoke of 34 deaths since Wednesday in various municipalities of the capital of Permanbucan, more than 1,300 displaced or homeless and did not include an estimate of missing.

The fatal landslide in Recife, one of the areas of Brazil most vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis

In the midst of a lull in the rain, Some 1,200 troops -according to the state government- from the Fire Department, Civil Defense, the Military Police and Social Assistance, with the help of helicopters and boats, resumed the work of searching for the disappeared and rescuing people in the morning that were isolated by the fury of the storm, which caused landslides on hills, rivers overflowed and large torrents of mud that devastated everything in its path.

Images broadcast this Sunday on television show rescuers, helped by volunteers, removing debris amid great destruction in the Jardim Monteverde community, on the border between Recife and the municipality of Jaboatao dos Guararapes.

Five people had already died on Wednesday, four of them in Olinda: three buried by landslides and one after falling into a canal.

Videos uploaded on social networks show wide avenues flooded by fast-flowing rivers in various municipalities, houses collapsing, overflowing rivers and hills collapsing amid cries of despair.

catastrophic rains in pernambuco, brazil

“The water it’s going up We are waiting for the rescue, ”explained Lidiane Izidio, a resident of Jaboatao dos Guararapes on the roof of her completely flooded house, to the GloboNews channel. Images from that station showed the residents of that municipality collaborating with the rescue forces in the search for those disappeared due to a hill slide.

The Governor of Pernambuco, Paulo Cámara, flew over the affected region, in which some 1,200 troops from various corps work piecework, with the help of “three helicopters, boats and heavy vehicles.”

(AFP)

Between Friday night and Saturday morning, the volume of rain reached 236 millimeters in some parts of the capital of Pernambuco, according to the mayor’s office.

This is equivalent to more than 70% of the forecast for the entire month of May in the city.

According to meteorologist Estael Sias, from the MetSul agency, the The intense rains that affect Pernambuco and, to a lesser extent, four other northeastern states, are the product of a phenomenon typical of this time, the so-called “eastern waves”, areas of “atmospheric disturbance” that move from the African continent to that li region Brazilian Toral.

“In other areas of the Atlantic this instability forms hurricanes, but in the northeast of Brazil it has the potential for a lot of rain and even electrical storms,” he explained.

(With information from AFP and EFE)

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