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The death toll in the massive highway collapse in the Chinese province of Guangdong has risen to 48 after 23 cars went tumbling down a hillside following heavy rains. However, locals are praising a man who may have saved many more. After seeing cars traveling the wrong way on his side of the highway, he talked to one of them and discovered that there was a collapse up ahead. Then, he bravely drove his truck up to the scene and parked it horizontally across the road, signaling to other drivers that there was no road ahead of him. Meanwhile, his wife got out to tell other drivers that there was a collapse. The couple were given a total of 20,000 Chinese yuan ($2,828 USD) by multiple companies as a reward, and the man stated that they would donate it to the relatives of the victims of the highway collapse.
On another note, the death toll of the deadly flooding in southern Brazil has risen to 75, and 103 people are now missing. Over 88,000 people have been forced to evacuate and 800,000 people across the region have no water. Rivers have reached record levels and swept away bridges, and the heavy rain has inundated towns and sparked landslides across the state of Rio Grande do Sul after raining for almost 7 straight days.
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