On Sunday, the authorities in Brazil were racing against time to provide relief to those affected by the devastating floods that struck the south of the country, especially the state of Rio Grande do Sul, killing at least 78 people and displacing about 90,000 people from their homes.
Through images taken from the air and rescue operations taking place on the ground, it is possible to see neighborhoods completely flooded with water, which reflects the severe damage in the south of the country, where the water level rose to the point that residents lost everything they owned within minutes, while the streets of the state capital, Porto Alegre, which is inhabited by about… 1.4 million people.
More than three thousand personnel, including soldiers, firefighters and rescue workers, were mobilized to relieve residents amid a state of chaos, and also to search for about 100 missing persons, according to the latest civil defense assessment.
On Sunday, the Brazilian President visited the state, which is characterized by agricultural production and has a population of about 11 million people, for the second time in a few days.
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