(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, MAR 21 – Still dead in Brazil due to bad weather in Petropolis, the city in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro where on February 15 landslides and floods caused 233 deaths and four missing: yesterday the heavy rains they hit the area again and, according to an initial toll, there are at least five victims and four missing.
Firefighters and civil protection rescuers are at work from the early hours of the morning in the districts affected by avalanches and water overflows. The town hall, with about 300,000 inhabitants, is located at a height of 800 meters above the sea level.
Petropolis mayor Rubens Bomtempo said the situation was “very worrying”. “The population is apprehensive, the historic center is flooded again”, added the mayor, underlining that, given the “fragility” of the land due to the abundant rainfall, there is a real risk of further landslides in the same areas already affected in the month; last.
Between the afternoon and the night of this Sunday, about 400 mm of rain fell in the city, where it rains on average 273 mm throughout the month of March. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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