A terrible storm caused damage and left at least five dead and one missing in Rio de Janeiro

At least five people died and another is missing after a heavy rain and wind storm hit the city of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night. As reported by the news site G1, the mayor said "the state of crisis".

In the western part of the Fluminense capital, two people died and two others were injured after a house collapse, while in Rocinha, the biggest favela of the city, a person dead in an avalanche. A fourth person died in the Vidigal neighborhood and another on Niemeyer Avenue.

According to the Brazilian authorities, in four hours, the expected rain fell throughout the month of February. The storm, with winds exceeding one hundred kilometers per hour in Copacabana, provoked floods, power outages and landslides in several neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, in addition to fall of more than 120 trees.

The images that have become viral show how the current took a person in the Rocinha, although according to the O Globo chain would have survived. Other pictures show how the streets they became rivers in the Rio Mountains or how the lobby of the Sheraton hotel was flooded.

On Niemeyer Avenue, part of the bike path that accompanies this important road from Rio de Janeiro has collapsed, forcing traffic to stop in both directions.

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, decreed three days of mourning for the dead and told reporters that it will take "more than a day to normalize" the situation on Niemeyer Avenue.

In the morning of this Thursday, several points of Rio de Janeiro are in "state of crisis"because of bad weather, because they continue to be flooded, while firefighters are striving to clear the roads and repair the damage caused by the rains."

The weather forecast for today is heavy rain in the afternoon, which could cause new landslides because the soil, after the storm of yesterday, is more unstable.