Brazil: after a heat wave, a storm sows death in the southeast. In the Rio de Janeiro region, nine people have already died due to bad weather.
Record rainfall transformed the Quitandinha River into a powerful torrent. Bridges were torn down, roads were flooded and landslides buried multi-story residential buildings. This is not the first time that Petropolis has been plagued by a natural disaster: in 2023, 180 people were killed in February, and another 150 in November, during similar floods.