{"id":1314516,"date":"2022-02-19T15:52:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1314516"},"modified":"2022-02-19T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:53:06","slug":"brazil-117-killed-in-landslides-near-rio-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-117-killed-in-landslides-near-rio-de-janeiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: 117 Killed in Landslides Near Rio de Janeiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrazil-117-killed-in-landslides-near-rio-de-janeiro%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1314516&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">At least 117 people <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brazil-mudslide-death-toll-rises-dozens-missing-9c9f416df053f0af65533baedcce6f3c\">died<\/a> this week in floods and landslides that swept through the historic mountain city of Petropolis north of Rio de Janeiro, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Local government officials in Petropolis said on February 17 the town\u2019s death toll from the natural disaster \u201ccould still rise sharply, with 116 more still unaccounted for.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Record rainfall <a href=\"https:\/\/oglobo.globo.com\/rio\/vontade-de-desenterrar-com-minhas-maos-diz-mulher-que-procura-por-mae-irma-soterradas-na-casa-da-familia-em-petropolis-25397978\">caused<\/a> torrential flooding and subsequent landslides to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6oloxKFeswY\">rip<\/a> through Petropolis this week, washing away hundreds of houses and burying others in mud. Aerial footage recorded over Petropolis by Agence France-Press (AFP) on February 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PXmMAePU-6c\">showed<\/a> a giant strip of earth running vertically through the mountainside city where homes and roads once stood. Petropolis experienced the most severe weather on Tuesday. The city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/americas\/20220216-state-of-disaster-as-heavy-rains-trigger-deadly-landslides-flooding-in-hills-above-rio-de-janeiro\">recorded<\/a> the equivalent of one month\u2019s average rain (over 10 inches) within a six-hour time span on February 15, marking the greatest amount of rainfall Petropolis has received since 1932.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTorrents of floodwaters and mudslides dragged cars and houses through the streets of the city Tuesday during the most intense rainfall in decades,\u201d the AP recalled on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>One eyewitness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W-judbAHGdg\">video<\/a> of Tuesday\u2019s flood circulating on social media showed two buses \u2014 seemingly filled with riders \u2014 swept away by a torrent of water that overtook a local street in Petropolis.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The video captures harrowing moments before the buses are enveloped by the muddy torrent. Some passengers climb out of the windows of the buses onto the top of the vehicles only to find they have nowhere to go. The buses and passengers are soon swallowed by the unforgiving floodwaters and disappear from sight.<\/p>\n<p>Petropolis is located roughly 40 miles north of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The mountain city is in the state of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19930930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Brazil-Deadly-Rains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19930930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Brazil-Deadly-Rains.jpg\" alt=\"Rescue workers and residents look for victims in an area affected by landslides in Petropolis, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescue workers and residents look for victims in an area affected by landslides in Petropolis, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (Silvia Izquierdo\/AP)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is almost like war,\u201d Rio de Janeiro Gov. Claudio Castro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/americas\/20220217-torrential-rains-mudslides-kill-dozens-in-brazil-s-rio-de-janeiro-state\">told<\/a> reporters on February 17, describing the aftermath of the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCars hanging from poles, cars overturned, lots of mud and water still,\u201d Castro said of the scene in Petropolis on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Petropolis declared three days of mourning on February 16 in the wake of the deadly mudslides, which displaced more than 400 residents. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday he would release federal funds to Petropolis to aid the city\u2019s recovery from the natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to already offer to the mayor what we can,\u201d Bolsonaro told reporters in Moscow on February 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian president is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/pressreview\/1404833\">visiting<\/a> Moscow for bilateral talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 117 people died this week in floods and landslides that swept through the historic mountain city of Petropolis north of Rio de Janeiro, the Associated Press (AP) reported &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}