The A lightning strike took the life of a woman and caused seven injuredincluding members of his family, on a beach in the state of Saint Paulin the midst of the very heavy rains that hit the southeastern Brazil, local authorities reported.
“There were sequences of electrical discharges, produced between the water and the sand on the beach Vila Caiçara, Playa Grande, resulting in four victims, all from the same family, one of them, a 60-year-old woman died; The others are in serious condition, but stable,” notified the Civil defense of the state.
Four other people were struck by lightning.
The same sources indicated that ““Four other people were also hit by electric shocks, but not seriously,” according to the first official reports.
“In the state of Sao Paulo, three people died in the last 24 hours, after heavy rains and wind caused landslides and flooding in six municipalities,” reported the state-run Agencia Brasil.
“A man died when the vehicle in which he was traveling, with another occupant, was swept away by waters in the municipality of Sorocaba, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo,” said the AFP agency.
Meanwhile, in Limeiraa Brazilian municipality located in the eastern part of the state of Sao Paulo, others “Two women were rescued after being trapped under a car, but they did not survive.”
Another storm claimed more victims in Brazil
Likewise, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (south)unleashed on Tuesday, a storm left two dead, announced this Saturday on the social network Governor Eduardo Leite when updating “casualty balance”.
In that order, last week, the strong rain storms and winds that hit the city of Sao Paulo left two more people dead, while “thousands of inhabitants of the largest metropolis of Latin America, suffered at least three days with power cuts,” it was reported.
For its part, the southern region of Brazil has faced extreme weather events in recent months, such as heavy rains and a “devastating cyclone” in September, which left more than 50 dead. According to experts, these phenomena, driven by climate change, tend to be repeated throughout Brazil.
Source: Ambito
