The Christ the Redeemer of Corocovado, protective symbol of the city of Rio de Janeiro, is drawn today by the Brazilian cartoonists Strip mourning in his arm open. The rains have returned to the disaster region, especially in Petropolis and Nova Friburgo, have produced more death, fear and destruction.More landslides have buried entire families again. The government of Rio de Janeiro has declared a state of public emergency in seven municipalities and announced the construction of 3,000 homes for some of the nearly 6,050 families lost their homes and others that have to be relocated because they live in areas at risk.
The president, Dilma Rousseff, has declared three days of national mourning, beginning on Monday, the governor of Rio, Sergio Cabral, has expanded to seven in this State, reports O Globo. The authorities also concentrate their efforts today to restore all utilities since many areas remained without electricity supply, water and telephone.
The regional government provides the first steps to rebuild while rescuers continue their work, mainly in isolated areas that were covered with tons of dirt, rocks and mud slid from the mountains. More water in a month throughout the year in Teresopolis, where the training center of the National Football Federation has become a grocery store and in makeshift rooms des volunteer rescue teams, 133 people are missing and are searched under rubble and mud accumulated meters.
The 633 officers are killed, but the number is growing steadily and the announcement of heavy rain the next few days threatens to further deaths. The most affected city Nova Friburgo with 287 deaths, followed by Teresópolis with 271. A fall distance of 56 and Sumidouro Petrópolis, whose mayor, Joar Corguinha, corrected the death toll provided a few hours ago to raise it to 19.
Yesterday, most Army helicopters had to stay on land without power off by heavy rains in Freiburg, where he has fallen into water a month throughout the year. The reconstruction of the three largest cities of the tragedy, major tourist sites Petrópolis, Nova Friburgo Teresopolis and will cost the state 2,000 million reais <7A> (a real equivalent to 40 euro cents) for the reconstruction of bridges, destroyed roads and rooms.
Itaipava, the luxury tourist region of Petropolis, has again been hit by the rains and the overflowing of the river San Antonio, leaving a trail of destruction in the towns of Valle de Cuiabá, Madame Machado and Brejal. The bodies are still buried under the mud and will only be possible to rescue them with special machines according to the fire commander, Colonel Souza Viana.
In the region of Brejal, threatening to break a dam that has made the locals flee using small paths through the vegetation used by animals, without waiting for rescuers. Fear is a common denominator in the area, where the economy is broken and the police monitor to not turn aprovec speculators have pushed prices of all staples up to a thousand per thousand.
Meanwhile, despite the help of the armed forces arrived on the scene, there are complaints about the lack of coordination of the delivery of food coming from all over the country and sometimes piled outdoors, even in the rain without distribution is achieved. In Nova Friburgo 20% of the dead are children.
The white coffins mourned by desperate mothers are a common sight on the news every day. Has comforted and moved to the country the story of little Nicholas, six months, which remained buried for 14 hours with his father under the rubble and survived by his father. According to the director of the maternity of Nova Friburgo, Nari José Reis, where it is host to the child, the father was making it all the time sucking the saliva from his mouth, which prevented dehydrated.
When both came to light, the father, Wellington 25 years, raising the child to heaven exclaimed, "My God, I believe in miracles." Do not know yet, however, that his wife and baby's mother, Renata Costa, 28 had died hugging her mother, also deceased.
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