MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Four people, including a child, were killed in the Mairipora municipality where a landslide occurred on Thursday night, the newspaper said on Friday.
In Francisco Morato, a suburban city in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, nine people were killed by a landslide.
Two people drowned in the city of Guarulhos.
According to some Brazilian media, local rescue services report at least 18 deaths amid the rainstorm which has affected a total of twenty cities in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area.
The Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport temporarily suspended operations and several train stations stopped their activities, according to El Universal.
