An eight-year-old schoolboy is among 10 dead after a horror landslide caused by torrential rain swept through Brazil Rescue services in the Minas Gerais state said Sunday that nine people died in the city of Ipatinga where 3.1 inches of rain fell in the space of one hour on Saturday night Firefighters then tragically pulled the body of an eight-year-old boy from the rubble of a house destroyed by a landslide Also among the deceased victims was an elderly woman, aged 70, and a 30-year-old man, according to Diário do Centro do Mundo Another landslide swept away everything in its path along a street on the side of a hill in the city's Bethania neighborhood Heartbreaking images from the scene showed rubble from the houses poking up from the thick river of mud that has consumed the area though four members of the person's family were rescued A body was also found in the nearby town of Santana do Paraiso located one hour away from the city of Ipatinga said in a press conference: 'It wasn't just the rainfall in the last few hours it rained practically every day in the last month 'We had a very high number of landslides in several neighborhoods' According to Globo the city has declared a State of Public Calamity for 180 days The decree will allow for the adoption of emergency measures to assist victims and mitigate the damage caused by the tragedy It will authorise the mobilisation of agencies The decree also includes the possibility of accessing private properties to carry out relief operations The National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) maintains the alert in both municipalities due to forecasts of heavy rains for the next few days Minas Gerais state governor Romeu Zema sent a message of 'solidarity with the victims' in a statement on social media He stated he would travel to Ipatinga to inspect the work being carried out to assist the families of victims 'I spoke with Mayor Gustavo Nunes and made the state fully available I will be there by tomorrow morning at the latest And here is my request: during this rainy season look for safe places and count on the support of Civil Defense,' Zema said According to Paraina Online, the municipal stadium has been made available to house the displaced and is receiving donations. 'At the moment we are not in need of clothing donations, but of mineral water, food, personal hygiene and cleaning products to distribute to affected families,' Nunes said. Regarding the reported lack of warning to the population before the heavy rain, the mayor stated that the rain took everyone by surprise. 'There was no forecast to warn us, it happened in the early hours of the morning and started at 3am in a more intense way,' he said.  Nunes also stated that in one neighborhood of the city, when the rain intensified, residents managed to flee their homes before they collapsed. In total, 67 military personnel and 16 vehicles from the Fire Department and Military Police are involved in the rescue operations.  There are also three teams from Civil Defense, as per local reports. Latin America's biggest country has been rocked by several extreme weather events over the past year. 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No one seems to have shared their thoughts on this topic yetLeave a comment so your voice will be heard first. {{message}} 204mm (8 inches) of rain fell in Ipatinga on Sunday morning Ipatinga Mayor Gustavo Nunes declared a state of emergency and acknowledged the lack of preparedness caused by the sudden intensity of the rainfall “There was no time for people to prepare,” Nunes said At least nine fatalities were reported in Ipatinga including five members of a single family whose home was buried under mud Local media reported that two young relatives managed to escape Homes precariously built on steep hillsides were swept away a common risk in Brazil during the rainy season Aerial images show entire neighbourhoods inundated with red mud The city’s health centre also sustained damage Health Minister Walisson Medeiros confirmed that patients awaiting transfer had been evacuated to facilities in neighbouring cities the health centre is in no state to attend to people,” Medeiros said Minas Gerais Governor Romeu Zema announced plans to visit the affected areas later on Monday to assess the damage and coordinate relief efforts Landslides during Brazil’s rainy season often result in tragedies particularly in neighbourhoods built on unstable terrain Residents of affected areas and local authorities continue to grapple with the ongoing risks of extreme weather Emergency teams are working to clear debris and locate survivors while displaced families are being provided with temporary shelter The government has urged residents in high-risk areas to remain vigilant as rains are forecast to continue in the region two others injured in Sagamu-Benin expressway crash Police arrest suspected kidnappers of Ministry of Justice Director Rescuers in Indonesia search for survivors as landslide claims 19 lives Landslide kills 670 people in Papua New Guinea Landslide claims three labourers in Nasarawa village Landslide: Three siblings escape death in Akwa Ibom Imo: Several families trapped after landslide Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd Company plans five sites across the country by 2023 New data center firm OneX has opened its first data center in Brazil The company launched its first data center in the city of Ipatinga located in the Vale do Aço (steel valley) region of Minas Gerais The facility reportedly has a capacity for one petabyte of storage and 75kW across 355 sqm (3,800 sq ft) The facility has on-site solar panels to contribute towards its energy use According to BNAmericas the company is planning to develop at least five data centers by the end of 2023 The company has a second data center under consideration in Minas Gerais Another data center is planned for next year and two more for 2023 executive director and one of OneX's founding partners said the company aims to invest up to 75 million reais ($13.2m) in the process with each development costing around 10-15 million reais ($1.8-2.7m) Bicalho is executive director of Ipatinga-based software development firm Gerenciar Sistemas The company was hosted in a Microsoft environment but has repatriated its systems to go into the OneX facility “We then bought our first servers and hosted them at an Internet provider here in Vale do Aço It was then that I found out that we didn't have skilled labor in the region to assemble the servers for me there was no physical structure to meet the level of safety and quality I was looking for,” he told BNAmericas "I thought we should do all our own while also providing services to others who understood the demand and bet on the project." A version of this story appeared on our Brazilian edition Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia , opens new tab firm did not provide further details about the forecast but it had previously announced it would halt its blast furnace #3 at the Ipatinga plant for renovation starting April.The company which is set to invest a total 2.7 billion reais ($531.98 million) in the renovation said last year it was building inventory to prepare for the move.Earlier on Thursday Usiminas reported a first quarter net profit of 544 million reais down 57% from a year ago but reversing the impairment-driven loss seen in the previous quarter.The bottom line also beat estimates from analysts polled by Refinitiv even as steel sales and net revenue dropped 9% and 8% respectively from the same period a year ago.Net revenue totaled 7.25 billion reais while analysts had forecast it to reach 7.67 billion.($1 = 5.0754 reais)Reporting by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Steven Grattan Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab , opens new tab Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. , opens new tabScreen for heightened risk individual and entities globally to help uncover hidden risks in business relationships and human networks. © 2025 Reuters. All rights reserved O endereço abaixo não existe na globo.com This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Reporting by Alberto Alerigi and Andre Romani; Writing by Isabel Teles A man wanted for murder and other crimes in Brazil has been captured in Philadelphia. Ramon Correia was arrested at his home last week by Enforcement and Removal Operations, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The 28-year-old remains in ICE custody while the agency and Brazilian authorities work on his deportation. Correia is wanted for November 23, 2021, killing of a man in Ipatinga, a city in the southern state of Minas Gerais. He and two members of his drug trafficking network are accused of fatally shooting Ruan Melo, 28, and wounding a 26-year-old owner of a snack bar where Melo worked as a cook. Witnesses told authorities at the time that Melo was friends with two people who would rent motorcycles to criminals in the area. 'It was proven that the crimes were motivated by disagreements involving drug trafficking,' the Public Ministry said in a statement. An ICE spokesperson told DailyMail.com that Correia was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol on February 22, 2022 near Lukeville, Arizona and was released with a notice to appear before an immigration judge. Correia is facing a prison sentence of 24 to 60 years if convicted.  He was also a suspect in the January 31, 2020, double murder of Aspasia Ferreira and Aline de Souza, both 20, who were targeted because of their connections to local drug dealers. Correia was acquitted of all charges, a Public Ministry spokesperson told DailyMail.com. Two suspects, including one who had fled to Spain, were arrested and convicted. {{message}} Brazil - The story of how the first Brazilian immigrant set foot in Framingham opening the doors for the thousands of Brazilians who now call the town home [Click here for a photo gallery] who came to Framingham in 1971 to work in the kitchen of the Sheraton Hotel on Route 9 who left his hometown of Ipatinga in 1969 in search of adventure had never heard of Framingham and the town had never seen a Brazilian ``I was the first one,'' said Ramos at his home in Ipatinga to which he returned in 1994 after living 25 years in the United States Ramos' role as a pioneer of Brazilian immigration in Framingham is a fact well-known in Ipatinga a modern and industrial city of 240,000 that has also sent many of its brethren overseas Ipatinga is located an hour from Valadares as Ramos walked across the exclusive gated community where he lives accompanied by a visitor from the United States a handful of his neighbors greeted him with good-humored jokes they're going to know who brought all the Brazilians there,'' one man shouted amid the general laughter but he said he's proud of having been a sort of colonizer for the Brazilian community in Framingham He persuaded a handful of Brazilians who were working in Boston to work in Framingham Those early settlers then brought their relatives and those relatives brought their families and friends And so began the Brazilian immigration saga who was known as ``Ollie'' among his American friends who couldn't pronounce his name ``I was opening the road for others to better their lives with money he was saving working as waiter and bartender he bought a piece of land in Ipatinga's downtown and built an 11-apartment building and neither he nor his wife need to work anymore Ramos bought land in a well-to-do neighborhood of Ipatinga where he has lived with his wife Maria Alcina and their two children citizen in 1985 after having legalized his status through a brief marriage to an American woman in the late 1970s He feels at home both in the United States and Brazil ``Your homeland is where you are happy,'' he said Ramos and his wife have the best memories of Framingham worked at restaurants and pizzerias along Route 9 and lived at the Granada building on Route 30 and Lord Chesterfield Apartments a former professor who cleaned houses in Framingham We didn't live looking back to the past or working us to death to save money for the future