Brazil Mudslide

Nearly 70,000 people have been forced from their homes amid deadly flooding, mudslides and torrential storms in southern Brazil, with the major city of Porto Alegre particularly hard-hit, the country's civil defense agency said Saturday.

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is flying over areas that have been punished for the past two days by downpours that caused heavy flooding and mudslides that killed at last 20 people in the state of Sao Paulo.

Brazilian authorities have halted all operations at an iron ore mine where the collapse of a waste reservoir triggered a mudslide that killed at least four people, the state government said Monday.

Rescuers for a third day Saturday searched the site where an avalanche of mud and mining sludge buried a village in southeastern Brazil, with at least one person dead and 28 missing.

A dam holding back waste water from an iron ore mine in Brazil that is owned by Vale and BHP Billiton burst on Thursday, devastating a nearby town with mudslides and leaving officials in the remote region scrambling to assess casualties.

Civil defense officials say the death toll in the floods and mudslides caused by heavy downpours in two states in southeastern Brazil has risen to 32.

Brazilian officials put Sao Paulo on alert on Wednesday as heavy rains hit the metropolis.In Rio state, meanwhile, deaths from last week's mudslides rose to 727.Rains falling in Sao Paulo flooded major highways, a day after downpours stranded motorists, forcing them to be rescued by helicopter from atop their vehicles.One woman died when her house ...

Days after mudslides wiped out whole neighborhoods, many residents continued to live in homes in threatened areas, unwilling to join the thousands crowded into shelters despite the ever-present danger to their lives.Rali Oliveira da Silva, 35, spent several years building a home for his family in Cascata do Imbui, saving little by little for the ce...

They are tired, hungry, traumatised - and resigned to saving themselves without the aid their government promised after massive mudslides that killed nearly 600 people.Wanderson Ferreira de Carvalho lost 23 family members - including his wife and two-year-old son - in massive mudslides, yet spent Saturday hauling water and food up steep jungle trai...

The power was out, but lightning flashes illuminated the horror as villagers watched neighbors' homes vanish under a wall of mud and water, turning neighborhoods into graveyards. Survivors dug at the earth barehanded on Thursday, but all they found were bodies.It was a scene of muddy destruction in mountain towns north of Rio, where at least 476 pe...

Nearly 70,000 people have been forced from their homes amid deadly flooding, mudslides and torrential storms in southern Brazil, with the major city of Porto Alegre particularly hard-hit, the country's civil defense agency said Saturday.

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is flying over areas that have been punished for the past two days by downpours that caused heavy flooding and mudslides that killed at last 20 people in the state of Sao Paulo.

Brazilian authorities have halted all operations at an iron ore mine where the collapse of a waste reservoir triggered a mudslide that killed at least four people, the state government said Monday.

Rescuers for a third day Saturday searched the site where an avalanche of mud and mining sludge buried a village in southeastern Brazil, with at least one person dead and 28 missing.

A dam holding back waste water from an iron ore mine in Brazil that is owned by Vale and BHP Billiton burst on Thursday, devastating a nearby town with mudslides and leaving officials in the remote region scrambling to assess casualties.

Civil defense officials say the death toll in the floods and mudslides caused by heavy downpours in two states in southeastern Brazil has risen to 32.

Brazilian officials put Sao Paulo on alert on Wednesday as heavy rains hit the metropolis.In Rio state, meanwhile, deaths from last week's mudslides rose to 727.Rains falling in Sao Paulo flooded major highways, a day after downpours stranded motorists, forcing them to be rescued by helicopter from atop their vehicles.One woman died when her house ...

Days after mudslides wiped out whole neighborhoods, many residents continued to live in homes in threatened areas, unwilling to join the thousands crowded into shelters despite the ever-present danger to their lives.Rali Oliveira da Silva, 35, spent several years building a home for his family in Cascata do Imbui, saving little by little for the ce...

They are tired, hungry, traumatised - and resigned to saving themselves without the aid their government promised after massive mudslides that killed nearly 600 people.Wanderson Ferreira de Carvalho lost 23 family members - including his wife and two-year-old son - in massive mudslides, yet spent Saturday hauling water and food up steep jungle trai...

The power was out, but lightning flashes illuminated the horror as villagers watched neighbors' homes vanish under a wall of mud and water, turning neighborhoods into graveyards. Survivors dug at the earth barehanded on Thursday, but all they found were bodies.It was a scene of muddy destruction in mountain towns north of Rio, where at least 476 pe...