Ironically, the flooding comes on the heels of two years of drought that caused severe water shortages in the sprawling metropolis of 20 million people.
A landslide buried 13 of the victims, while two others drowned in the floodwaters, the rescue service said on its official Twitter account.
Another eight people are missing, feared trapped inside two homes that collapsed in the landslide in the municipality of Mairipora, rescue official Marcos Palumbo told news site G1...
AFP
11/3/16
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ReplyDeleteRescue workers found the body of a 73-year-old woman in the town of Mairipora, one of the hardest hit by the last week's rainstorm in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area.
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