The most recent in a line of climate calamities to hit Brazil, it is the deadliest ever in the territory of Rio Grande do Sul, Lead representative Eduardo Leite told a news gathering.
"We were profoundly disheartened to get the news that as the water subsides... 15 additional bodies were found in the town of Mucum, bringing the loss of life to 21," he said.
Near 6,000 individuals were constrained from their homes by the tempests, what began Monday, unloading hail and in excess of 300 millimeters (almost 12 inches) of downpour on the state in under 24 hours and setting off floods and avalanches, authorities said.
In Mucum, a modest community of 5,000 individuals, hundreds must be protected from their roofs as the Taquari stream overwhelmed in excess of 85% of the city, as per nearby news site GZH.
"There are still individuals missing. "Mayor Mateus Trojan told Radio Gaucha that the death toll could rise even higher."
"The town of Mucum as far as we might be concerned does not exist anymore."
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva communicated something specific of fortitude with those impacted, saying the national government is "prepared to help."
Cleared away
The casualties incorporated a man killed by an electrical shock in the town of Passo Fundo and a couple whose vehicle was cleared away by a stream as they attempted to cross an extension in the town of Ibiraiaras.
The tempests hit 67 regions on the whole, influencing in excess of 52,000 individuals, specialists said.
The adjoining territory of St Nick Catarina likewise recorded one passing, as indicated by news site G1.
Many firemen as well as military police and common safeguard faculty were dispatched as a component of salvage tasks, with helicopters shipped off arrive at regions cut off by flooding.
"There are many confined families, many individuals still in danger," said Correspondences Clergyman Paulo Pimenta, who is wanting to go to the district with an administration designation Wednesday.
With more downpour conjecture from Thursday, specialists caution more flooding is conceivable.
It is the most recent in a line of lethal climate occasions to hit Brazil, which specialists say are probable being exacerbated by environmental change.
Officials claim that such catastrophes are also becoming more deadly as a result of unchecked urbanization and irregularly constructed housing on hillsides.
An expected 9.5 million of Brazil's 203 million individuals live in regions at high gamble of flooding or avalanches.
In June, another typhoon left 13 dead in Rio Grande do Sul and constrained a great many individuals from their homes.
Also, in February, 65 individuals passed on in avalanches brought about by record flooding in the southeastern retreat town of Sao Sebastiao, on the shore of Sao Paulo state.