{"id":60001,"date":"2020-01-28T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60001"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:18:47","slug":"brazil-floods-at-least-58-dead-40000-displaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60001","title":{"rendered":"Brazil floods: At least 58 dead, 40,000 displaced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/imagecache\/mbdxxlarge\/mritems\/Images\/2020\/1\/26\/f1538f8c596044a997242525982b3a96_18.jpg\" alt=\"Flooding and landslides leave more missing and thousands displaced [The Associated Press]\"\/><figcaption>Flooding and landslides leave more missing and thousands displaced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BRASILIA, Jan 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Severe flooding in southeast Brazil has left at least 58 people dead and displaced more than 40,000 others, the regional civil defense agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst-hit states are Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, where torrential downpours have wreaked havoc since late last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Minas Gerais, 47 people have died since heavy rains fell on Friday, with four others missing and 65 others injured, the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 101 towns in Minas Gerais have declared a state of emergency after 14,609 people were driven away from their homes due to flood waters, and 3,386 others were left homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state&#8217;s capital Belo Horizonte has registered 13 fatalities, mainly as a result of mudslides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine people were reportedly killed in Espirito Santo, and at least two other deaths were reported in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazilian government has declared a state of calamity in four towns in south Espirito Santo, where rains have caused major damage. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRASILIA, Jan 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Severe flooding in southeast Brazil has left at least 58 people dead and displaced more than 40,000 others, the regional civil defense agency said. The worst-hit states are Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, where torrential downpours have wreaked havoc since late last week. In Minas Gerais, 47 [&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\/60001"}],"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=60001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}