Monday, January 17, 2011

Brazil floods have caused 482 people dead rescue workers rescued babies 6 months

 Many parts of Brazil, Rio houses were washed away, roads were flooded.

case in decades in southeastern Brazil, floods and landslides has been going on for several days, to 13 have killed at least 482 people were killed, and that number is likely to rise further.

Serrana mountainous northern Rio de Janeiro from heavy rains since Tuesday night. The equivalent of putting the pouring rain one month, in 24 hours led to landslides burst into the village, the river burst its banks flooding.

one of the areas worst affected 特勒索波里斯 City (Teresopolis) Mayor MA Rui (Jorge Mario) said, killed and dozens of people have no hope of survivors.



the forecast for heavy rain will continue, making rescue work more difficult, while further increases the risk of debris flow.



mountain days of torrential rain in Rio, Brazil.

in   and around the town, all houses - whether rich or poor - have been swept away by floods, economic losses could reach several billion dollars. But the poor bear the brunt of the victims or the more rural areas, where the houses were built without official permission.

floods did not affect Brazil's agricultural exports - soybeans, sugar cane, citrus and coffee - but it may cause local food prices soaring, because the small mountains of Rio de Janeiro region Serrana major fruit and vegetable suppliers.

rescue workers have been trying to pull people out from the rolling flood, and search the rubble looking for survivors, but they more or to see the body. When a 6-month-old baby from a house in the rescued, the local residents broke out in huge cheers.

crushed a woman in the house hugging her dog. People throw her a rope from a nearby rooftop, and she was eventually pulled to safety zone, but had to give up her dog let go.

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