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• 'It was like a movie': rescue operations under way as deadly floods hit Brazil – video

  10-05-2024 15:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Rescue operations are under way in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where devastating floods have killed more than 100 people. Soldiers rescued a man clinging to a fence in a flooded area in the city of Porto Alegre. Emergency workers also rescued a horse that had been trapped for days on a rooftop. More than 165,000 people have been displaced from flooded homes and rescued by boats and helicopters, with many taking refuge at makeshift sheltersBrazil is reeling from catastroph
  
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• Brazil is reeling from catastrophic floods. What went wrong – and what does the future hold?

  10-05-2024 13:33 via theguardian.com
  
  In the country’s south, up to half of the annual predicted rain fell in just 10 days – the third such event in a year. Experts say it is time to plan for a new normalPhotographs by Daniel MarencoWhen the torrential rain began to swallow her city block, Cristiane Batista, 34, grabbed her three children, a couple of backpacks and her smartphone and waited at the door, hoping to be picked up by the municipal trucks preparing to evacuate the population of Muçum, in the state of Ri
  
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