At least 94 people dead from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the Brazilian city of Petropolis as rescue workers continue to search for survivors
At least 94 people have died from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the Brazilian city of Petropolis.
With 35 people still reported missing, fears that the death toll could climb further sent firefighters and volunteers scrambling through the remains of houses washed away in torrents of mud, many of them in impoverished hillside slums. City hall declared a "state of disaster" in the city of 300,000 people, which sits 68 kilometres north of Rio.Using dogs, excavators and helicopters, more than 180 firefighters and other rescue workers were responding to the emergency, aided by 400 soldiers sent in as reinforcements. Tuesday's storms dumped 258 millimetres of rain on the city in three hours, nearly equal to all the rainfall from the previous month, the mayor's office said.
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