Rescuers search for missing after storm deluge kills 30 in Brazil

Record rains trigger floods and landslides in Brazil, killing 30 as rescuers search for dozens missing.

Firemen have pulled a man’s body from the mud amid the rubble of houses swept away in a landslide in southeastern Brazil, where 30 people have died and another 39 are still missing after torrential rain.

A river burst its banks and streets became raging currents of brown water in the state of Minas Gerais after the overnight downpour in a region that has seen record rainfall this month.

State firefighters said on Tuesday that 30 people had died in the cities of Juiz de Fora and Uba, and that more than 200 people had been rescued.

Firefighters and sniffer dogs were working to find the 39 people still missing in the debris.

In a hillside neighbourhood of Juiz de Fora, 12 houses were swept away in a “massive landslide”, Major Demetrius Goulart of the fire brigade told AFP.