At least five people died from floods due to torrential rain on Sunday in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro authorities reported on Monday about the mountain city that recorded the worst tragedy in its history in February, with 233 deaths.
“So far, five victims have been found dead,” the state government, together with Civil Defense and the military fire brigade, said in a statement.
In addition, “there are records of four missing persons” in the city center, the note added.
On the other hand, on the Angra dos Reis coast, two people died after a tree fell on their car as a result of the rains.
Until early Monday, Civil Defense had recorded 95 incidents in Petrópolis, most of them due to landslides.
Videos recorded by local inhabitants and viralized on social networks once again showed streets turned into flowing rivers with water sweeping everything in their path, images similar to those recorded a little more than a month ago.
Crosses planted in a square in homage to the victims of February also sailed on the water.
The mayor's office removed about twenty vehicles that had been dragged.
“So far, the Rio de Janeiro military fire brigade has received more than 50 calls for landslides and (requests for) rescue of isolated people at different points,” the statement said.
On Sunday, the mayor's office of this former imperial city, a picturesque tourist destination north of Rio de Janeiro, activated some twenty support centers in the face of rain forecasts, where 574 people were cared for early Monday.
Some 150 soldiers carried out rescue tasks in the morning, with the support of specialized search and rescue forces, among others. About 28 people were rescued alive.
In a sample of the intensity of Sunday's downpour, the town of São Sebastião, in the municipality of Petrópolis, accumulated 403.6 millimeters in 10 hours.
The forecast for this Monday in the area indicates moderate to weak rainfall in the Petrópolis area.
The city was hit on February 15 by the worst storm since 1932, which caused landslides in neighborhoods erected on the slopes of the mountains and floods, with a death toll of 233 people.
According to scientists, climate change is aggravating the frequency and intensity of these climate phenomena.
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