Up to ten dead in Rio de Janeiro because of the storm

The heavy rains that fall on Rio de Janeiro since Monday night already left at least a dozen dead, as well as countless damages and floods that the most emblematic city of Brazil has gone through with a crisis.

Seven of the victims died in the southern part of the city of Rio de Janeiro, while the other three were in the western part.

According to Commissioner Valéria Aragão, of the Copacabana Police Station, on Tuesday, the bodies of a grandmother, her granddaughter and a taxi driver were found inside the house. A vehicle buried after a landslide on a hill. the Botafogo district.

The two women were missing. According to their relatives, they were both riding in a taxi in front of the RioSul shopping center, a vehicle that police could locate using the GPS signal.

In the early hours of Tuesday, a landslide that devastated several houses in the Babylonian favela caused the deaths of two women and one man. On the other hand, two other men lost their lives drowning on the flooded roads of the city.

Among the victims, there is also a man who died after being dragged by the water currents after falling off his motorcycle and a 40-year-old man who was electrocuted by cleaning the drain of his house.

According to the weather reports, it rained in four hours more than last weekend, when the showers caused the death of six people and the accumulated volume was up to 70% higher than expected for the entire month of April.

Due to the difficulties in getting around the streets, the mayor of Rio, Marcelo Crivella, He canceled clbades in municipal schools and universities and asked to avoid going to the south of the city..

In addition, according to information provided by the Government of Rio de Janeiro, at least 1,200 people have lost their homes and six others have been wounded in the state.