The toll in the flood so far is 83 dead and 111 missing.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - In all her 74 years Lorena Martins had never seen anything so horrible: a torrent of foul, rust-coloured flood water engulfing her modest home in Brazil, taking away everything but her family.
Motorboats, jet skis and row boats come and go constantly as crews try to persuade people who refuse to leave their flooded homes. “We cannot force them to leave. It is optional,” he tells AFP as three men behind him try to repair a motorboat needed for the many rescue trips that await them. A four-wheel-drive vehicle towing yet another boat pulls up to join the operation.These volunteers are urgently needed because the government cannot save all the people standing on their rooftops looking at streets turned into rivers in this booming 250-year-old city of 1.
Security forces arrest a man who was allegedly robbing houses after the flooding, in Porto Alegre. PHOTO: AFPThe number of people forced from their homes is also rising as rescue efforts press on during a break in the torrential rains.
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