At least nine people died in Ipatinga, Brazil, after 80 millimeters of rain fell in just one hour on Saturday night, according to France 24.
Firefighters recovered the body of an eight-year-old boy from the rubble of a house destroyed by a landslide. On a hillside street, another landslide in the city’s Bethania neighborhood wiped out everything in its path.
Images from AFP show the homes reduced to rubble emerging from the mud. By Sunday evening, one person remained missing, four other family members were rescued. A body was also found in the nearby town of Santana do Paraiso.
Minas Gerais State Governor Romeu Zema expressed his “solidarity with the victims” in a social media post.
The incident is the latest in a series of extreme weather events in Brazil. Earlier in the year, massive floods caused by record rainfall killed more than 180 people in the South.
Brazil has also faced a historic drought linked to climate change, which led to the worst wildfires in 17 years, ravaging large areas of the Amazon rainforest.