Rescuers were on Wednesday scrambling to reach people cut off by record-breaking floods in southern Brazil that have killed at least 95 people and displaced more than 200,000, as more rainfall was set to further hamper aid efforts.
Firefighters, civil defence units and the army struggled to reach those marooned by water in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, some of whom have spent days stuck on the roofs of buildings.
The historic floods followed a deluge of rainfall in recent days, which some scientists have linked with climate change. One monitoring station in Porto Alegre, the state capital, recorded almost 260mm in three days — equivalent to about two months’ average rainfall.
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