Officials told CNN Brazil on Saturday that a landslide in the city of Paraty had killed at least eight people – a father and seven of his children – aged 2 to 17. A seventh child was rescued and taken to hospital, municipal officials said. At least four other people were injured – none seriously – after seven houses were hit by landslides in the coastal community of Ponta Negra, according to officials in Parati. More than 22 neighborhoods were flooded and 71 families were displaced. In the municipality of Mesquita, a 38-year-old man fell from an electric shock after three days of heavy rain, CNN Brazil reported. In the city of Angra dos Reis, a 4-year-old girl and a teenager were killed and at least nine people are missing, the subsidiary said, citing civil defense and fire officials. Five people were rescued. Rio de Janeiro state firefighters and civil defense authorities have been deployed in the affected cities to help rescue people. The Civil Defense has no estimate of how many are ignored so far. Brazil’s Interior Ministry says Colonel Alexandre Lucas, the national secretary of civil defense and defense, is traveling to the worst-hit areas on Saturday. In early February, at least 24 people were killed and more than 1,500 displaced after the state of Sao Paulo was hit by heavy rains for days, causing floods and landslides.
