Rescue teams search for victims amid the debris after a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Barrio Parque Jardim Burnier neighbourhood in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, on February 24, 2026. PABLO PORCIUNCULA / AFP
Houses were swept away in a landslide in southeastern Brazil, where 30 people died and 39 were still missing on Tuesday, February 24, after torrential rains. A river burst its banks and streets became raging currents of brown water in the state of Minas Gerais after the overnight downpour in a region that has seen record rain this month.
State firefighters said 30 people had died in the cities of Juiz de Fora and Uba. More than 200 people have been rescued. Firefighters and sniffer dogs worked to find the 39 people still missing in the debris.
In a hillside neighborhood of Juiz de Fora, 12 houses were swept away in a "massive landslide," Major Demetrius Goulart of the fire brigade told Agence France-Presse (AFP). "Many people were inside their homes at night when it was raining," he said.
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