Brazil floods kill 39, leave 1,000 missing

FLOODS after days of driving rain have killed at least 39 people in northeastern Brazil, and left 1,000 unaccounted for and another 100,000 people homeless, authorities said.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called a crisis cabinet meeting and said the government would make federal funds available to help the homeless.

“Up until the early afternoon we had 26 confirmed dead in Alagoas (state) and more than 1,000 people missing,” Alagoas Governor Teotonio Vilela Filho said, quoted on the official Agencia Brasil news agency.