Heavy rains kill 93 in Brazil

Rio de Janeiro: Over 24 hours of torrential downpours in and around Brazil's second-largest city have claimed have killed 93 people, firefighters said.Half of the fatalities were in the Rio de Janeiro suburbs of Niteroi and Sao Gonzalo, while 33 people died in Rio proper. The vast majority of the dead perished in rain-driven mudslides that buried dwellings in the region's numerous hillside 'favelas,' or shantytowns. 'There will be more deaths, probably, since there are several mudslides....




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