Flooding displaces nearly 40,000, kills 7 in Argentina
Nearly 40,000 people were forced to abandon their homes and seven others were killed after days of heavy rain triggered flooding in three Argentine provinces, police and civil defense authorities said on Saturday.

In the worst-hit Santa Fe province, around 30,000 people were evacuated in and around the provincial capital and the cities of Rosario and Canada de Gomez, civil defense authorities said.

Two men and a woman lost their lives in Santa Fe after a house collapsed and was washed away by the swollen Parana River near Rosario. The two men's bodies were recovered on Friday by coastguard boats and the woman's body was retrieved on Saturday.

In Entre Rios province, an elderly farmer drowned in the Gualeguay River when he tried to rescue his livestock from floodwaters, according to civil defense officials.

About 8,000 people were driven from their homes in Entre Rios, in eastern Argentina, and there were also some 400 evacuees in central Cordoba province.