The heavy rains of recent days in Brazil have affected thousands of people in at least five states of the Brazilian Amazon, in the northern region of the country, local media reported this Saturday.
Heavy rains hit the states of Tocantins, Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará and Acre, the latter being the hardest hit of all, with more than 2,500 people evacuated from their homes in the regional capital, Rio Branco, according to the Civil Defense.
Between Thursday and Saturday, Rio Branco registered more than 75% of precipitation than expected for the entire month of March, according to official figures.
This caused the rivers that cross the city to overflow, causing damage to dozens of neighborhoods. There are currently no reports of injuries or missing persons.
In Marabá, in the state of Pará, another 1,800 people were also forced to leave their homes due to the rains, according to the g1 portal of the Globo group.
In Rondônia, rivers flooded a group of indigenous villages located in the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau reserve.
Fifteen days ago, a landslide also caused by another storm caused eight deaths in the city of Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas.
Less than a month ago, another storm off the coast of the state of São Paulo caused at least 65 deaths, 64 of them in the city of São Sebastião and one in Ubatuba.
Source: TSF
