Floods have destroyed roads and bridges in several areas, and rains have triggered landslides
People wade through a flooded street on Saturday in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil . Photograph: Carlos Fabal/AFP via Getty ImagesThe number of people still missing rose to 101 and more than 80,000 had been displaced, according to the state civil defence authority. It was investigating whether another six deaths were related to the storms, it added.
Storms in the past few days have affected about two thirds of the nearly 500 towns and cities in the state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina. Floods have destroyed roads and bridges in several areas. The rains have also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam at a small hydroelectric power plant.China’s Xi Jinping to begin Europe visit amid tensions over industrial policy and Ukraine war
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