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| Situation Update No. 15 Ref.no.: CE-20100406-25596-BRA
Situation Update No. 15
On 2010-04-10 at 03:24:45 [UTC]
Event: Complex Emergency
Location: Brazil State of Rio de Janeiro Statewide Rio de Janeiro, Niteroi, Sao Goncalo
Number of Deads: 205 person(s)
Number of Injured: 106 person(s)
Number of Missing: 253 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 24000 person(s)
Situation: The death toll from landslides and floods in and around Rio de Janeiro this week reached 205 on Friday and was expected to rise as searchers continued looking for bodies in an operation expected to last through the weekend, authorities said. Morning and afternoon downpours threatened to set off new slides as emergency crews used excavating equipment to search for victims at the most devastated site: a slum built atop a garbage dump that was buried by a landslide. Crews have pulled 27 bodies from the debris so far at the hardest hit site in Niteroi, next to Rio. Authorities fear the death toll from that slide alone could be as many as 200, though it was not clear exactly how many people were buried beneath the mud. The latest confirmed death toll of 205 was released in a statement by Rio de Janeiro state's civil defense department. It said 161 people were injured. Most of the victims were swept away in landslides that roared through slums built on steep, unstable hillsides. |  | | | |
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