The rain began last calendar week and the landslides struck by Friday , damaging menage in favelas across the cities of Recife and Jaboatao behave Guararapes , the Guardian report . Homes in favelas are often go to needy communities and run to be built into hillsides , making them prone to damage from natural disasters and uttermost weather .
Photos of the disaster zones throughout Brazil show break down walls , mud - caked walls , and masses trudging through what look like thick layers of chocolate-brown sludge . The debris and heavy clay is making rescue efforts more difficult , and time is running out to discover more people alert in some of the ruins .
This tragedy is just one of several landslides that have occurred in the country this class . In February , intense rainfollowed by flooding in Petrópolis , a Southeast municipality in Brazil , spark a monumental landslide , Yale Climate Connections reported . More than 230 the great unwashed were sustain dead as a consequence of that catastrophe .
Rescue teams work at the scene of a landslide in Recife, Pernambuco State, in Brazil on May 30 after heavy rain.Photo: SERGIO MARANHAO/AFP (Getty Images)
The climate crisis has change precipitation in many parts of the world , causing more intense andmore frequentrainfall . This means more downpours , more flooding , and more likely landslide are going to strike in community across Brazil and elsewhere that are often not prepared for these disasters .
unhappily , the affected areas are still at risk for more landslide this week .
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