Brazil cheers as horse rescued from rooftop

CANOAS, Brazil — A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users garnered national attention after a television news helicopter filmed him stranded on a rooftop in southern Brazil, where massive floods have killed more than 113 people.

About 24 hours after he was first spotted and with people clamoring for his rescue, a team in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state successfully removed Caramelo on Thursday, providing a dose of hope to the beleaguered region.

The brown horse had been balancing on two narrow strips of slippery asbestos for days in Canoas, a city in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area, which is one of the hardest-hit areas in the state, much of which has been isolated by floodwaters.