More than 1,000 people await rescue after flash floods and landslides obliterated huge swathes of the affected communities in in southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Aerial view of the area affected by an extratropical cyclone in Muçum, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, taken on September 5, 2023. / Photo: AFP
"The water rose so fast, I didn't even have time to take anything with me. I lost everything," said Paulo Roberto Neto Vargas, 39, a resident of the hard-hit town of Roca Sales, where emergency workers recovered six bodies. More than 5,300 people have been forced from their homes, with at least 52,000 residents and 70 towns affected in all, authorities said.
Local media said authorities there and in neighboring Roca Sales had to resort to using a commercial refrigerator truck to transport victims' bodies."The storm destroyed everything. There's nothing left in Roca Sales today."
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