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Added on the 07/06/2023 10:40:03 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
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
People navigate in boats through the flooded streets of Porto Alegre, Brazil, as floods and mudslides have killed at least 66 and forced more than 80,000 to flee their homes, according to authorities. IMAGES
Vehicles navigate flooded streets in Dubai as heavy rains return to the United Arab Emirates just two weeks after record downpours that experts linked to climate change, leading to the closure of schools and many offices in the desert country. IMAGES
Streets in La Roche-Posay, western France, are flooded following heavy rain and the overflowing of the local river Creuse. The river reached 6m78 in the city, exceeding the historic flood of 1982, and is expected to rise to 7m2, close to the record of 1896 (7m3). IMAGES
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES