Tuesday, January 18, 2011

680 dead and 200 missing in Brazil


In Brazil, the number of casualties after the landslides and floods north of Rio de Janeiro has risen to 680th Still at least 200 people are missing. But in the most affected city Teresopolis, some 100 kilometers from Rio, was missing from 177 people unaccounted for. The authorities are afraid of not a further increase in the number of victims.

According to a published media account of the administrations of the six most affected cities so far 680 bodies from the rubble and mud masses have been recovered. Only in Nova Friburgo, it was 318th Thousands of people were left homeless by the flooding disaster, and need to live in temporary shelters.

The rescuers were now further reinforced by 700 soldiers. They should work on eliminating mobile bridges to facilitate the transport of relief supplies in the disaster area.

In Teresopolis announced the Government on the construction of 1,500 temporary shacks, where families in the coming months are to be accommodated. In the region, many houses still intact is now threatening the demolition because they were built illegally in risk zones. According to the government living in Brazil a total of about five million people in landslide-prone areas.

Another rescue of buried man in Rio de Janeiro

 

He spend more than 15 hours in that conditions! The cameramam start record and only when the guy came out of the mud he realized that was a very close friend!

 






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