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Added on the 06/01/2016 16:19:25 - Copyright : Eyewitness Video Online
People use boats to navigate through Porto Alegre after unprecedented flooding turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. By Sunday, floods had killed at least 78 people in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul with dozens missing and some 115,000 forced to leave their homes. IMAGES
Residents move in boats through the flooded streets of a town in northern Bolivia after heavy rains caused the Acre River to overflow. The city of Cobija on the border with Brazil is suffering unprecedented flooding, with water levels reaching 17 meters (55.7 ft). The rainy season in Bolivia, which began in December and will last until March, has so far left 40 people dead and nearly 10,000 families affected, according to the government. IMAGES