Overview
- Following Friday's torrential downpours in the Recife–Olinda area, landslides and flash floods killed at least six people, including three children.
- Civil Defense tallies report several injured and evacuations ranging from about 2,200 to roughly 2,700 people across eight to eleven municipalities.
- Firefighters said they rescued 525 stranded residents using 26 boats as crews moved door to door through flooded streets.
- Floodwaters damaged power and drinking-water plants, cutting service in several neighborhoods and slowing relief work.
- Brasília declared municipal emergencies and sent rescue teams, food and shelter as officials warned of more rain in a region recently hit by deadly floods in Minas Gerais in February 2026 and southern Brazil in May 2024.