The rains that hit the states of Alagoas and Pernambuco has left 52 dead in northeastern Brazil flood victims contend that spoiled food marketers play off the streets of cities in Pernambuco hit. "You better pick up and get on the street than come in and steal," said one woman who was competing in the food turned out, another woman said she had gotten a packet of biscuits, which would be divided among five children. The information is from the National Journal.
The trader Luis Carlos Lins, who owns eight stores, estimates that threw out 100 tons of foodstuffs. "It broke my heart to see so much food being thrown away." Roads and bridges were destroyed in Pernambuco, which hinders the arrival of emergency crews. Food is distributed with the help of helicopters from aircraft. In the state, 17 persons have died from the rains, the homeless individuals (people who lost their housing and are in public shelters) are 26 200 and displaced persons (people who leave home, but not necessarily lost their property and are not in shelters) , 54 066. In Alagoas, 35 people died, 26,618 are homeless and 47,897 homeless.