In Pictures: Dozens dead as powerful storm hits Brazil, causing flooding and landslides

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Brazil's Jequitinhonha River has risen to alarming levels following severe flooding in the country's Minas Gerais state. The floods have already claimed more than 50 lives and almost 30,000 people have been forced from their homes due to flood or landslide damage.

A bridge almost consumed by flood water on the border of the municipalities of Diamantina and Olhos D’Agua in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, is seen on Jan 28, 2020.Debris clogging a street on Jan 28, 2020, after the Da Prata stream overflowed due to torrential rain, in Raposos, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

 

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