Storm in Brazil: death toll rises to 41

The highest number of victims were in the municipalities of Muçum with 15 and Roca Sales with 10 deaths. According to the government, a total of almost 150,000 people were affected by the storms and almost 3,200 were left homeless.

According to media reports, people have had to be rescued from the roofs of their houses in the flood area northwest of Porto Alegre, the state capital, in recent days. On Saturday, the authorities wanted to distribute medicine and medical supplies in the Taquari River valley. Citizens from other parts of the state also donated so much food, water, clothing, blankets and mattresses that Civil Defense needed reinforcements to receive it all, the government wrote.

On Saturday, Pope Francis expressed his condolences to the families of victims of the recent floods in southern Brazil. A telegram to Brazilian Bishop Leomar Brustolin published by the Vatican press office on Saturday said that the Pope would offer his prayerful support to the communities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul affected by the severe flooding of the last few days. He prays for the victims and for the families affected. At the same time, he called for rapid reconstruction of the destroyed towns.

It is now winter in the southern hemisphere of the earth. Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost and one of the wealthiest states in Brazil. It has a strong European influence; the first German immigrants settled there in 1824. The current inhabitants are called Gaúchos in Brazil, with an emphasis on the u, in contrast to the Gauchos in Argentina.

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