China News Service Sao Paulo, February 22 (Xinhua) -- The fire department of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, disclosed on the 22nd that the current round of heavy rain has killed 8 local people, and the missing people are still searching and rescue.
According to a report by G1, Brazil, heavy rain struck the state of Rio de Janeiro on the evening of the 21st local time, causing house collapses, landslides, road collapses and severe waterlogging, which has killed 8 people, including 4 people in a family of four.
In the early morning of the 22nd, in Nueva Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, a young man named Marcos bravely rescued a mother and two children in the flood, and swiped the screen on social **.
In an interview with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, Marcos said his home had also been hit by flooding. He returned home uninjured and moved furniture.
On the 22nd, the governor of Rio said in a statement that rescue and rehabilitation efforts are ongoing. Several cities and counties in Rio de Janeiro have been put on high alert, with many schools suspended, several public sports venues closed, and many highway sections closed.
This week, the state of Tocantins in the north of Brazil and the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo in the southeast will see heavy rainfall. The accumulated rainfall in many places this month has exceeded the average for the whole year. (ENDS).