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Brazil: Flood: 2009/05/07 Country Information on DRR

Period 2009/05/07
Country or District Brazil
Event Type 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.
Summary
Human Impact Physical Impact Others

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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.