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| Situation Update No. 14 Ref.no.: CE-20100406-25596-BRA
Situation Update No. 14
On 2010-04-09 at 03:38:50 [UTC]
Event: Complex Emergency
Location: Brazil State of Rio de Janeiro Statewide Rio de Janeiro, Niteroi, Sao Goncalo
Number of Deads: 180 person(s)
Number of Injured: 106 person(s)
Number of Missing: 253 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 24000 person(s)
Situation: - Rescue workers looking for dozens feared buried
- 24,000 without shelter, many houses still at risk
- Disaster puts spotlight on Rio housing problems (Updates death toll, adds governor quote, details)
Rescue workers using heavy machinery dug for bodies and survivors on Thursday after a torrent of mud dislodged by heavy rain ravaged a hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro, burying dozens of residents. The worst rains in 40 years, which started on Monday, triggered close to 200 mudslides that pulverized shacks in hillside communities, killing at least 180 people and leaving thousands homeless in and around Brazil's second-biggest city. Search teams pulled out 12 bodies and rescued 21 people from the wreckage of houses swept away by the large slide late on Wednesday that buried about 50 houses in the Bumba Hill slum in the city of Niteroi, across a bay from Rio. Marlene Pineiro said she and her family heard a loud noise as the earth began moving under her house and managed to jump out of a window before it collapsed. |  | | | |
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