2011年4月25日星期一

Landslides claim 12 lives Brazil

25 April 2011 last updated at 07: 40 GMT Map locator landslides and floods in southern Brazil over the weekend is now known that left a dozen people dead.

Some 40,000 people are of the torrential rain and hundreds left homeless people affected.

The authorities in the State Rio Grande Sul have declared a State of emergency in seven towns.

Among the dead were seven family members, whose H?user were buried by a landslide in the town of Igrejinha.

Other victims included three children, died when their house in Novo Hamburgo of mud was devoured.

Rescue workers have areas thought to landslips evacuation at risk was.

There was also flooding in and close to Porto Alegre, the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the power outages suffered.

More rain is likely dry weather for the next few days, but towards the end of the week.


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