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Tenejapa (Mexico), Nov 11 (EFE).- (Camera: Mitzi Fuentes Gómez) With some of their belongings in on their backs, thousands of families from the southeastern Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco have abandoned their homes these days after the rains that hit the region caused heavy floods and left at least 27 dead.FOOTAGE OF TENEJAPA.SOUNDBITES OF JUAN LUNA LOPEZ, RESIDENT.Translation:"We're leaving the house. We're afraid of being in the house, as things are breaking and the house is sinking."
The Californian Department of Water Resources has been unleashing up to 100,000 cubic feet of water per second from the heavily damaged spillway at Oroville Dam in a bid to drain Lake Oroville after local authorities determined that uncontrolled flood waters could rush down from the lake due to a severe erosion of one of the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillways. Although authorities have been working round the clock to plug remaining holes, the dam, which is about 70 miles north of Sacramento, is still at extreme risk of flooding. Local authorities supervised the evacuation of almost 200,000 people from Butte, Marysville, and Yuba Counties, which are located downstream from California’s second largest water reservoir.
Images from the village of Pokrovskoye in northern Kazakhstan show houses submerged in flood water after fast-melting snow caused the river Esil to reach unprecedented heights. Moscow and Astana have been battling rising rivers for more than five days, with both declaring a state of emergency and saying the floods have been the worst in decades. IMAGES
Images of the landslide and debris of houses in Petropolis, near Rio de Janeiro, after heavy rains left 4 dead in the disaster. A powerful storm in southeastern Brazil has killed at least thirteen people, most of them in the mountainous and northern region of Rio de Janeiro state. IMAGES
Thousands of people turn up to a rally called by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo, to reject claims he plotted a coup with allies to remain in power after his failed 2022 reelection bid. Investigators say the far-right ex-army captain led a plot to falsely discredit the Brazilian election system and prevent the winner of the vote, leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, from taking power. A week after Lula took office on January 1, 2023, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court, urging the military to intervene to overturn what they called a stolen election. IMAGES
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