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Brazil floods: Death toll rises to 29 as thousands displaced in Rio Grande do Sul

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The government of Brazil’s southernmost state Rio Grande do Sul declared a state of public calamity as the death toll as a result of severe flooding climbed to 29 on Thursday.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who visited one of the devastated towns Thursday, offered his full support to local authorities and those impacted.

“We don’t know how our house will be, the things we put so much work into every day to build and buy. And now to arrive with nothing, we have lost everything,” displaced resident Silvia Rodrigues said on Thursday, after arriving at an evacuation centre.

The storms, which have caused the most devastation in the state in recent years, have left 60 people missing and 10,242 people displaced across 134 cities, according to Rio Grande do Sul’s civil defence.

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