Tag: Santa Catarina

• Wednesday, April 5th 2023 - 15:20 UTC

  A man took an axe to a daycare center in Brazil and killed four children

  

  Four children were killed and at least four injured Wednesday in an attack on a daycare center in southern Brazil.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 10:32 UTC

  Two dead in southern Brazil heavy storms

  

  Heavy storms in Santa Catarina have left 2 people dead and at least 140 people homeless, with health and transportation services suspended statewide, it was reported Wednesday. The most affected regions were the northern coast and Greater Florianópolis.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Cyclone causes havoc in southern Brazil

  

  A subtropical cyclone has left substantial damage and many people injured in the Brazilian southern state of Santa Catarina, where the seaside resorts have been placed under alert amid landslides.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Some 6,700 Magellan penguins migrated to Brazil's coastline during winter

  

  Brazil's Beach Monitoring Project, PMP, reports that more than 6,700 penguins have arrived mainly on Santa Catarina and Parana states coast during the migration season this year, which represents a 20% per cent increase in the number of marine birds coming over last year.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Dozens of robbers take over a town in southern Brazil and loot the local bank

  

  Dozens of gunmen armed with assault rifles invaded a city in southern Brazil overnight Tuesday and took control of the streets as they assaulted a local bank.

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Virus moving south: Brazilian state of Santa Catarina reimposes strict confinement measures

  

  The southern state of Santa Catarina, which borders with the Argentine province of Misiones decreed on Saturday strict confinement measures following a record death toll from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Cyclone in south Brazil causes death, flooding, power cuts and disruption in major port operations

  

  Windstorms and storms recorded this week in the south of Brazil caused deaths in Santa Catarina, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul leaving a trail of destruction in the three states of the region, with fallen trees and power posts, flooded homes, lack of energy and road blocks.

• Monday, February 18th 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Brazil deploys elite forces in southern state to contain wave of violent attacks from drug lords

  

  Elite police commando units fanned out across the streets of the Brazilian southern state of Santa Catarina over the weekend in an attempt to contain a wave of violent attacks over the past two weeks.