Floods in Brazil, yacarés swim in the streets | Chronic

Neighbors of a favela denounced the presence of yacarés who escaped from a property whose wall collapsed following the storm that hit Rio de Janeiro with a balance of 10 tourist areas dead and hit the city of southeastern Brazil, reported Wednesday. local media.

The animals that crossed the waters that flooded the Favela do Rola in Santa Cruz, west of Rio, scared neighbors, according to the newspaper O Globo.

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"I saw the wall fall, two people found the yacarés in the door of the house"said a neighbor of this community in social networks.

The heavy rains that began on Monday caused the death of 10 people, most of them in the southern favelas, the most touristy in Rio, and a 40-year-old man died electrocuted near the farm where the yacaras were raised. Ansa informed. The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella Decreed the state of crisis in the city where on Wednesday it rained again but with less intensity.

The Civil Defense ordered the animals to be trapped, but this was not possible because the Environmental Patrol agents could not enter the area, controlled by organized crime, because of the lack of security, according to Ansa.