The Brazilian Army and Navy resumed rescue operations in Brazil’s southernmost state’s capital city on May 24 as a preventive measure after rains intensified this week causing water levels in the streets to rise.

Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil’s southernmost state ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas that had previously been untouched in Rio Grande do Sul’s capital city of Porto Alegre.

Record flooding over the past month has killed 163 people and displaced around 600,000 more. Another 64 people are still missing.

Rains had lightened up to a drizzle over the past few days, with stores beginning to open and residents working to rebuild.

But the skies opened once more on Thursday morning, dumping heavy rains and flooding areas of Porto Alegre all over again. The natural disaster monitoring centre reported 100 millimetres of rain in 15 hours in the Porto Alegre south, local media reported.

Earlier this week, the city had asked residents to leave their trash out on the sidewalk to be thrown away. However, the fresh rains carried the trash out onto the streets, clogging drains and worsening the flooding.

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