Tropical Storm Nalgae in the Philippines has killed at least 45 people and injured 33 others, officials said Saturday.

Landslides and flooding have killed at least 31 people in the southern Philippines after torrential rains from the approaching Tropical Storm Nalgae lashed the region.

While firefighters search for missing people under thick mud, residents in the Brazilian city of Recife can barely sleep.

Part of a hill collapsed in northern Peru on Tuesday, burying at least 60 homes.

The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the Brazilian city of Petropolis has risen to 146, including 26 children.

An increasingly desperate search was under way on Friday for people buried by a deluge of mud that swept through the Brazilian city of Petropolis leaving what resembled "scenes of war" according to President Jair Bolsonaro.

Drone footage captured the scale of destruction in Colombia after a landslide buried homes and killed and injured dozens of residents. 

Colombian rescue workers are rushing to find survivors trapped under the site of landslide, that has so far killed at least 11 people and injured 35 others.

At least 24 people perished in a landslide in Ecuador's capital Quito, and 12 others were missing, Mayor Santiago Guarderas said on Tuesday.

Landslides and flooding from heavy rains in Sao Paulo state kill at least 18 people.