Details of Disaster Information


Brazil : Flood : 2009/05/07
GLIDE: FL-2009-000089-BRA  DRR & Disaster Information

Duration 2009/05/07
Country
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District		 Brazil
Name Flood
Outline Rain-induced flooding over large parts of Brazil have killed at least 31 people and left another 500,000 homeless, the government's civil defense agency said Thursday.

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Personal Injury Material Damage Others

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Report/Articles
  • PAHO 2009/05/29
    The heavy floods have resulted in a dam break in Piaui that caused 5 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths due to the floods to 56 and causing 426,886 people to be displaced.
  • Reuters AlertNet 2009/05/13
    Floods and mudslides in northeastern Brazil have killed around 40 people, left hundreds of thousands homeless and devastated swathes of farmland.
  • CNN.com 2009/05/07
    About 270 towns and communities in 10 states have been flooded by swollen rivers. About one-third of the deaths have occurred in Ceara state in the northeastern part of the country, officials said.