{"id":271945,"date":"2025-11-09T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:24:12","slug":"powerful-tornado-in-brazil-kills-6-people-and-injures-more-than-400-others-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271945\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful tornado in Brazil kills 6 people and injures more than 400 others &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Associated Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted November 8, 2025 12:42 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated November 8, 2025 6:42 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A powerful tornado in Brazil\u2019s southern state of Parana killed six people and injured more than 400 others Friday night, state officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762614923_240_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The tornado, which hit speeds of more than 250 kph (155 mph), destroyed dozens of homes and prompted the government to declare an emergency in the affected region.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>State officials in a statement said at least one person was missing hours after the tornado touched down. 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Of those, at least 10 underwent surgery and nine remained in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva expressed solidarity with the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Associated Press Posted November 8, 2025 12:42 pm Updated November 8, 2025 6:42 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7426,49,48,295,24843,66,19512,1133,3275],"class_list":["post-271945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-brazil","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-natural-disaster","tag-science","tag-tornado","tag-weather","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}