Torrential rains in the night of Monday to Tuesday killed at least ten dead in Sao Paulo, aggravating an already deadly rains in southeastern Brazil. Three other people were missing, said civil defense in his latest report, urging people not to leave her house. The dead and missing were in most cases, victims of landslides that buried their homes in the area north of the city in particular.In one case, a mother and daughter died in the rubble of their homes. In another, a man drowned, driven by a strong current on a road. Tuesday morning, the situation was "chaotic" in the Brazilian metropolis, according to the news channel Globo News television streaming, six rivers overflowed, fifty-three areas were flooded and several major arteries, such as Marginal Tiete, one the main routes into the city are cut to traffic, causing immense traffic jams.
In images shown on television could see motorists abandoning their cars half submerged, advancing cautiously with muddy water up to waist. Further, the bus passengers were signs of distress in a helicopter. In a favela in the north, a mudslide came rushing down the hill, causing the trees in its path and engulfing a house precarious.
The austral summer rains cause daily in Sao Paulo and flooding that have killed death are common in this season. But a low pressure area arrived on Monday has caused heavier rains and prolonged that last night, sowed destruction and death. The emergency management center in Sao Paulo said that the amount of rain fell overnight precipitation was above a week.
Since the beginning of the year, they are equivalent to precipitation of a normal January. The thirteen victims counted in Sao Paulo by firefighters, plus six deaths occurred last week. In total, since the beginning of the rainy season in November, at least forty people have died or gone missing in south-eastern Brazil: nineteen in Sao Paulo, sixteen in the neighboring state of Minas Gerais and five in the Espirito Santo.
The weather service reported that the low pressure area was moving north towards Rio de Janeiro, but the weather will remain unstable region of Sao Paulo, with risks of further rain, although of lesser intensity. "The risks of landslides and rockfalls persist because the soil is saturated" with water, they warned.
According to the newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo, four hundred and sixty to thirteen people died in Brazil in 2010 because of rain.
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