{"id":251640,"date":"2025-11-08T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:28:09","slug":"six-killed-hundreds-injured-as-tornado-hits-south-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251640\/","title":{"rendered":"Six killed, hundreds injured as tornado hits south Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tornado accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain struck the southern Brazilian state of Paran\u00e1, killing six people, the state government has said.<\/p>\n<p>The town of Rio Bonito do Iguacu was hit hardest late yesterday, with the state&#8217;s civil defence agency reporting that over half of the urban area suffered roof collapses, along with multiple structural failures.<\/p>\n<p>Roads were blocked and power lines damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said 437 people were treated for injuries and about 1,000 were displaced. The nearby city of Guarapuava was also affected.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Destruction seen at night following a tornado in Rio Bonito Do Iguacu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/002372c5-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nDestruction seen overnight following a tornado in Rio Bonito Do Iguacu in Paran\u00e1 state in southern Brazil<\/p>\n<p>According to the Paran\u00e1 Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring System, the tornado&#8217;s winds reached speeds between 180km\/h and 250km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Institutional Relations Minister Gleisi Hoffmann said she would travel to the area with acting Health Minister Adriano Massuda and other federal officials to support relief efforts and reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to assist the people of Parana and provide all the help needed,&#8221; President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wrote on X, expressing condolences to the victims&#8217; families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tornado accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain struck the southern Brazilian state of Paran\u00e1, killing six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-251640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}