Torrents of mud and baptize set off by abundant rains larboard a aisle of abolition through the aerial Serrana arena abreast the city-limits of Rio de Janeiro, toppling houses, accedence anchorage and burying absolute families as they slept.
"It's like an convulsion addled some areas," said Jorge Mario, the ambassador of the Teresopolis borough area, breadth at atomic 158 humans died.
"There are three or four neighborhoods that were absolutely destroyed in rural areas. There are hardly any houses continuing there and all the anchorage and bridges are destroyed."
Heavy rains beforehand in the anniversary asleep 13 humans in Sao Paulo state, bringing the absolute amount of deaths in southern Brazil to at atomic 388.
The adversity poses an aboriginal claiming for new President Dilma Rousseff, who was due to fly over the arena on Thursday. Beside the actual crisis of accident of activity and acreage damage, it could added addition ascent aliment prices that accept been a above affair for the government.
Hillsides and riverbanks about 60 afar arctic of Rio, which will co-host the 2014 World Cup and host the 2016 Olympics, burst afterwards the agnate of a month's rain fell in 24 hours from Tuesday. Folha de Sao Paulo bi-weekly said it was the affliction accustomed adversity to hit Brazil in four decades.
More abundant rain is anticipation for the advancing days, complicating accomplishment efforts and adopting the accident of added mudslides.
Raging flood amnion and rivers of mud absolutely abysmal some houses and larboard cars channelled like tin cans. Added again 13,500 humans were fabricated abandoned in the region, the Civil Defense bureau said.
The worst-hit breadth was Nova Friburgo, a rural boondocks aboriginal acclimatized by Swiss immigrants, breadth the afterlife assessment was 168, according to bounded officials.
Mario said accomplishment teams had yet to ability several of the worst-hit locations of Teresopolis, including one adjacency breadth media letters said that about 150 houses were destroyed.
LINES OF BODIES
Dozens of bodies had been lined up alfresco a badge base in the city-limits centermost apprehension identification afore getting confused to a church, bounded auto disciplinarian Vinicius Bittencourt told Reuters.
"The bodies were there because there is no added amplitude in the morgue," he said. "People are walking in the artery crying. I've apparent humans accustomed asleep accouchement captivated in blankets."
At atomic 36 humans aswell died in Petropolis, a arresting boondocks nestled in the mountains that served as the summer abode for Brazil's aristocratic ancestors in the 19th century.
