RIO DE JANEIRO - Heavy rains that have devastated the region of the State of Rio de Janeiro have killed more than 500 deaths, a situation described as "very dramatic" by the same president Dilma Rousseff, who flew over the region to see for myself the extent of disaster. According to the latest budget of Civil Defense, the tragedy has left over 10 thousand homeless and a still unspecified number of people missing.According to the Brazilian media, the tragedy of the Serrana region is "the greatest disaster in the history of the country," the worst mudslide that, in 1967, overcame a coastal town Caraguatatuba, killing 436 people. Rescuers have finally arrived in many of the villages were swept away by the mud and that so far remained cut off due to collapsed bridges and landslides on the roads, and the fear is that the budget is expected to grow.
Efforts to find survivors are further hampered by landslides because the rain keeps falling on the region, making the ground very unstable. The President Rousseff, who flew over the area by helicopter, said he had seen a situation "devastating" and that the scenes are "shocking." Only on Wednesday morning storms in the area have downloaded a few hours before dawn, the equivalent of a month of rain, destroying houses, roads, bridges and knocking down telephone and electricity lines.
The cities most affected were Novo Friburgo, Teresopolis and Petropolis. Churches and police stations have been turned into makeshift morgues, but the smell of the corpses start to soak the area.
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