Widespread floods have forced nearly 140,000 people from their homes
in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil following days of torrential
rains that drenched a region where the countries
border each other.
Paraguay is the hardest hit with at least 100,000 evacuating according to the National Emergency Department.
Argentina’s
state-run news agency Telam reports that 20,000 people suffered the
same fate in that nation, while Uruguay’s National Emergency System says
some 9,000 were displaced by rivers that overflowed their banks.
Credit: Washingtonpost.
The
civil defense department in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande
do Sul says at least 7,000 people had to leave their homes.
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