World- Eleven people have been killed and two others
are missing in unusually heavy rainfall in Brazil's southern coastal
region of Baixada Santista, the state civil defence service said
Tuesday.
Some 200 people have had to leave their homes in the coastal town of
Guaruja, Sao Paulo state's civil defence service said in a statement,
adding that 4.6 tons of humanitarian aid materials including
mattresses, blankets, food and clean water had been provided.
Rainfall in the region over the past 24 hours has exceeded the amount
forecast for the entire month of March, local media reported.
The period from December to April is generally the wettest across
southern Brazil. Dozens of people have died in flooding and
landslides since the beginning of the year.