Death toll from rains in Brazil's south reaches 143, govt announces emergency spending

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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 12 — The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state rose to 143, the local civil defense government body said today, up from 136 in the...

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Why Yusoff Rawther’s discovery application of the polygraph test to support his action against Anwar Ibrahim was dismissed — Hafiz HassanView of a building partially destroyed after floods in Mucum, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil May 11, 2024. — Reuters picRIO DE JANEIRO, May 12 — The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state rose to 143, the local civil defense government body said today, up from 136 in the previous day, while another 125 people remain unaccounted for.

Last evening the government announced around 12.1 billion reais in emergency spending to deal with the crisis that has displaced more than 537,000 people in the state, out of a population of around 10.9 million. With this new money, more than 60 billion reais in federal funds has already been made available to the state, said the federal government in a statement yesterday.The state is at a geographical meeting point between tropical and polar atmospheres, which has created a weather pattern with periods of intense rains or drought.

 

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