Petropolis’ city hall declared three days of mourning over the deaths Southeastern Brazil has been inundated with heavy rains since the start of the year, with more than 40 deaths recorded between incidents in Minas Gerais state in early January and Sao Paulo state later the same month. “May God comfort the family members of the victims,” he wrote. “Our city unfortunately is finished.”īrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on a trip to Russia, said on Twitter he had instructed the government to deliver immediate support to affected communities. “Yesterday there was a woman screaming, ‘Help! Get me out of here!’ But we couldn’t do anything the water was gushing out, the mud was gushing out,” Virgilio told the news agency. Rosilene Virgilio, 49, was in tears as she recalled the desperate pleas for help from a woman she couldn’t save. Neves told The Associated Press news agency she had given up hope of finding her parents alive. The state fire department said more than 180 soldiers had been deployed while civilians had also joined official recovery efforts.Īmong them were Priscila Neves and her siblings, who looked through the mud for any sign of their disappeared parents, but found only clothing. Petropolis’s city hall said in a statement the deluge left “a high number of incidents and victims” and that rescue and recovery were continuing.

Southeastern Brazil has been punished with heavy rains since the start of the year “When the rain was falling hardest, a huge amount of mud came pouring down the hillside, and some tree branches fell on my house,” said the 32-year-old manicurist, on the verge of tears. Some 25.8 centimetres (more than 10 inches) of rain fell on the Petropolis area in the space of just three hours on Tuesday – almost as much as during the previous 30 days combined. She was clutching two bags in which she had stuffed some clothing when emergency officials ordered everyone in the area to evacuate. We never could have imagined something like this,” one fleeing resident, Elisabeth Lourenco, told the AFP news agency. The Globo television network showed houses buried beneath mud in areas firefighters had not yet been able to access. Video posted on social media showed cars and houses being dragged away by landslides, and water swirling through Petropolis and neighbouring districts. “The situation is almost like war … Cars hanging from poles, cars overturned, lots of mud and water still,” Castro told reporters at the scene. Almost 400 people have been left homeless, he said. The disaster in the city of Petropolis followed three hours of torrential rain on Tuesday, and Rio de Janeiro Governor Claudio Castro said the number of dead could rise as searchers pick through the wreckage. Just as the game seems to be destined for a 0-0 finish, a box-to-box blonde midfielder launches a stinging shot from the halfway line that squirts through the keeper’s grasp and into the bottom corner.Ĭue celebrations all round, and a trip to the showers.At least 94 people have been killed in mudslides and floods that tore through a mountainous region of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, local authorities said. Suddenly, the ball breaks for the pink team in front of goal but the sexy striker can only slice her effort over the wall. Play continues as the scantily-clad women battle through the treacherous conditions in search of a goal. The referee stops the game and orders a restart before an overzealous brunette launches a tasty two-footed tackle in on an opposing player. Within five seconds, half of the ten players have hit the deck, covered in soap suds. When the match official, a portly gentleman in a grey suit, begins the game by throwing a ball onto the pitch, all hell breaks loose. Played on an inflatable pitch around 25m in length, the rules seem to be similar to 5-a-side football: the ball is always in play, goalkeepers are optional and refereeing policy is extremely liberal.

Not content with merely sending women in swimsuits hurtling down a slip-n-slide, Brazilian television channel RedeTV! invented an entirely new sport to showcase some of the country’s most beautiful women.

Brazilian water slide gameshow