{"id":59848,"date":"2020-01-27T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59848"},"modified":"2020-01-27T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T02:52:55","slug":"brazil-floods-dozens-dead-in-severe-minas-gerais-rainstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59848","title":{"rendered":"Brazil floods: Dozens dead in severe Minas Gerais rainstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/Brazil-floods-Dozens-dead-in-severe-Minas-Gerais-rainstorms-848635?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/981\/98183863.295.jpg\" alt=\"Rescuers have been spraying water to disperse mud, as the search for the missing continues\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Rescuers have been spraying water to disperse mud, as the search for the missing continues<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRASILIA, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 30 people have died during severe rainstorms in Brazil&#8217;s Minas Gerais state, the country&#8217;s emergency services have said.<br><br>Many of the victims were buried in landslides or washed away in floods after intense rain on Friday and Saturday.<br><br>More than 2,500 people were evacuated from their homes, and local TV showed images of ruined houses under red mud.<br><br>Rescue work continued overnight into Sunday, with 17 people missing.<br><br>The Brazilian weather service said that the state capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, had had 17cm of rain in one 24-hour period &#8211; the heaviest rainfall since records were first kept 110 years ago.<br><br>About 40 municipalities in Brazil&#8217;s second most populous state have been badly hit.<br><br>The floods and landslides come on the first anniversary of the dam collapse near the town of Brumadinho, south-west of Belo Horizonte, that killed 270 people.<br><br>Forests were destroyed and rivers polluted, in what was Brazil&#8217;s worst industrial accident.<br><br>Mining giant Vale and German auditor T\u00fcv S\u00fcd now face environmental charges relating to the collapse, with 16 individuals who worked for the companies facing charges of murder.<br><br>Vale has been accused of failing to report warning signs before the dam engulfed a canteen, offices and farms. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers have been spraying water to disperse mud, as the search for the missing continues BRASILIA, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 30 people have died during severe rainstorms in Brazil&#8217;s Minas Gerais state, the country&#8217;s emergency services have said. Many of the victims were buried in landslides or washed away in floods after intense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59848"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}