Brazil, a land of torrential rains, floods, droughts, and heat waves, suffered this Friday night from the passage of a very strong tornado that killed six people and caused some 750 injuries, including nine seriously. There is also a missing person. The epicenter of the destruction, a city called Río Bonito de Iguaçu, is 300 kilometers from the famous falls and 3,200 kilometers in a straight line south of Belém, the Amazonian city that hosts against climate change. The winds reached more than 250 kilometers per hour. “In the last 30 or 40 years, we had not seen a tornado with that force. It has destroyed silos and gas stations,” declared the governor of the State of Paraná, Ratinho Junior, reports the newspaper. The Globe.
Governor Ratinho Júnior estimates that 10,000 of the 14,000 inhabitants of the small city in southern Brazil have been affected by this tornado that coincides with COP30, the summit in which negotiators come from all over the world and that the planet remains habitable. The storm has reached Rio de Janeiro, where it has knocked down about 40 trees, and is moving towards São Paulo.
The federal government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mobilized immediately and announced the sending of civil protection and humanitarian aid workers to the city of Río Bonito de Iguaçu and the rest of the affected region. The governor declared a state of catastrophe in this city, where many of the homes were affected by strong winds and falling trees.
as the planet’s temperature increases. A very visible situation in Brazil. A year ago, the State of Rio Grande do Sul, also in the southeast region, the most developed in the country, . And just a year before, the Amazon suffered a historic drought that caused serious damage, including the death of hundreds of dolphins asphyxiated in dry lakes.
At the summit of presidents that has been held in Belém these last two days, many of the speakers from the five continents recalled the recent climate catastrophes in their respective countries, which had a special mention to the victims of the dana in Valencia.
