More money pledged for flood-stricken Brazil

Lajeado, Brazil (AFP) May 15, 2024

The BRICS group of nations pledged a billion dollars for storm-ravaged southern Brazil Tuesday as slowly receding floodwaters started to reveal the full extent of the devastation. An unprecedented days-long deluge has claimed at least 149 lives in the stricken Rio Grande do Sul state, with 124 people still missing, according to official data. More than 600,000 people have had to leav