A woman has died on a beach in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo when struck by lightning in the midst of a heavy storm, which also injured seven other people.
“There were sequences of electric shocks, produced between the water and the sand on the beach of Vila Caiçara, Playa Grande, which caused four victims, all from the same family. One of them, a 60-year-old woman, died.; the others are in serious but stable conditions,” the Civil Protection of the State of Sao Paulo reported on Saturday.
The same agency specified that “Four other people were also hit with electric shocksbut without seriousness”, according to the first official information.
The state-run Agencia Brasil reported it instead Three more people have died in the last 24 hours in the state of San Pablo, after heavy rains and winds caused landslides and floods in six municipalities.
A man died when the car in which he was traveling with another occupant was overwhelmed by the waters in the municipality of Sorocaba, in the São Paulo macro-metropolitan region, the AFP news agency reported.
Meanwhile in Limeira – a Brazilian municipality located in the eastern part of the state of Sao Paulo – Two other women died after being trapped under a car. Although they were rescued by a team of firefighters, they did not survive.
The southern region of Brazil has been hit this week by numerous storms causing casualties and property damage. In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, a storm that broke out on Tuesday caused the death of two people, as governor Eduardo Leite reported on the social network X on Saturday, updating the death toll.
Unfortunately in this man a 29 year old motorcyclist who disappeared shortly after terça-feira, in the capital, was found in his life. He is the second fatal victim of the climate event. All solidarity with the families. While the security forces continue to act in support of the population.
— Eduardo Leite (@EduardoLeite_) January 20, 2024
Likewise, strong thunderstorms and winds that hit the city of San Pablo resulted in the deaths of two more people, while “thousands of inhabitants of Latin America’s largest metropolis suffered at least three days of power outages” “, he was informed.
Brazil’s southern region has been hit by several extreme weather events in recent months, including heavy rain and a “devastating cyclone” in September, which killed more than 50 people. According to experts, these phenomena, closely linked to climate change, tend to repeat themselves throughout Brazil.
Source: Clarin
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