Third Street Dweller Found Dead During São Paulo Cold Wave

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – (G1) A purplish body was located this Saturday morning on the east side of the city. On Friday, two other homeless people died after a cold wave arrived in the São Paulo capital.

A homeless man was found dead this Saturday morning, July 6th, after an icy dawn in the Itaquera region, in São Paulo’s east zone. He is the third street dweller to be found dead over the last 24 hours in the São Paulo capital since a wave of cold and rainy weather hit the city on Friday, July 5th.

Saturday morning, the city’s thermometers recorded 7.4ºC, the lowest temperature this year, according to Inmet.

The unidentified man was found in Professor Leonídio Alegrete street, in Itaquera, around 6:50 AM this Saturday, according to the police.

Police officers from the 48th Military Police Battalion were called in by residents and found the homeless man dead and no signs of violence. According to the police, the man died from the cold.

The case is being registered in the 63rd police district (Vila Jacuí), which will investigate the incident.

In a note, the São Paulo Municipal Assistance and Social Development Secretariat (SMADS) reported that it had provided 162 shelters for the homeless population over the past few nights, and they were forwarded to municipal reception centers; 24 people refused to be sent to shelters.

On Friday morning, street dweller Gabriel Leguthe Laffot, 22, was found dead on the stairs of the Barra Funda bus and subway terminal, in the west zone of São Paulo. In the early afternoon, another still unidentified homeless man was found on Dr. Pacheco e Silva street in the city center.

The man was found lying next to a phone booth, wet and barefoot. Some people who passed by covered him with blankets and plastic, thinking he was asleep.

(Source: G1)