Death toll in Brazilian floods rises to 46 as rescuers continue search
Al Jazeera
Emergency workers continue to search for missing residents of towns reeling from recent floods.
Authorities in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil have updated the death toll from recent floods to 46 people, after homes and towns were left covered in mud and debris.
The state fire department published the revised figure on Wednesday, adding that about 21 people remain missing. Forty of the deaths took place in the town of Juiz de Fora, while the other six were from nearby Uba.
About 3,600 residents have been displaced from the area, where emergency workers continue search operations.
“Our family is desperate,” Josiane Aparecida, a 43-year-old cook in Juiz de Fora, told the news service AFP.
She added that her aunt and cousin both died as a result of a landslide and that her cousin’s boyfriend and two children, ages six and nine, remain missing.
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