Floods and landslides have killed at least 25 people in southeastern Brazil. Two deaths recorded in Apiaca, in Espirito Santo, raised the toll to 17.
“I have never seen a flood like this,” trader Michelly Oliveira said. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: Tragedies of this type “are intensifying with climate change’ The storm was due to the arrival of a cold front which wreaked havoc mid-week.