{"id":29801,"date":"2024-05-02T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T08:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=29801"},"modified":"2024-05-02T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T08:36:40","slug":"deadly-storms-claim-10-many-missing-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/02\/deadly-storms-claim-10-many-missing-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Storms Claim 10, Many Missing in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll resulting from the fierce storms battering southern Brazil has tragically risen to 10, while the whereabouts of 21 individuals remain unknown, revealed the civil defense agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Eduardo Leite declared a state of emergency in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, as flooding and mudslides prompted the suspension of classes for Thursday. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is scheduled to visit the afflicted area to assess the extent of the damage and allocate federal aid.<\/p>\n<p>Labeling the situation as &#8220;dramatic,&#8221; Governor Leite stressed the urgency of rescue operations to assist those stranded in submerged residences. He grimly forecasted that this calamity could potentially become the most devastating climate disaster in the state&#8217;s history, especially with meteorologists predicting continuous rainfall until Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The relentless storms have forced the evacuation of approximately 4,400 residents across the region, with 107 cities declaring a state of emergency. In Santa Maria, a prominent city in the state, a mudslide occurred on Wednesday, compounded by the overflowing of a river that swept away bridges and roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll resulting from the fierce storms battering southern Brazil has tragically risen to 10, while the whereabouts of 21 individuals remain unknown, revealed the civil defense agency on Thursday. Governor Eduardo Leite declared a state of emergency in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, as flooding and mudslides prompted the suspension of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":29802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29811,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29801\/revisions\/29811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}