450,000 Homeless, 24 Dead in Brazil Floods
RIO DE JANEIRO — Heavy rains have hit northeastern Brazil for a month and more, causing floods that have killed at least 24 people and left 450,000 homeless in a region that emerged from drought only a year ago.
On Tuesday, water covered parts of 163 cities and towns in eight states with a total area of 395,000 square miles, more than twice the size of the state of California, according to the government’s regional bureau for the northeast.
The forecast is for more wet weather throughout the region, which only last year recovered from a severe five-year drought.
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