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Rescuers are trying to find survivors in cut-off areas of south-eastern Brazil hit by deadly floods that have left more than 500 people dead.
Relatives have been joining in the search but often only find the bodies of loved ones.
Heavy rain has brought massive mudslides down on several towns, where thousands have been made homeless.
Police say the number of dead is likely to rise further, but the disaster is already the worst the country has seen.
The death toll has surpassed that of mudslides in Caraguatatuba in Sao Paulo state in 1967 in which up to 430 people died.
President Dilma Rousseff visited and expressed solidarity with communities.
'It's all gone'
Darkness has fallen in the mountainous Serrana region, north of Rio de Janeiro, bringing a pause in the work of more than 800 rescue workers.
Many have spent Thursday scrabbling with their bare hands through debris.
In the Campo Grande area of Teresopolis, which was earlier cut off, rescuers found family members pulling bodies from the mud.
One Campo Grande resident, Carols Eurico, told the Associated Press: 'I have friends still lost in all of this mud. It's all gone. It's all over now. We're putting ourselves in the hands of God.'
Another resident, Nilson Martins, held a lucky pet rabbit that had survived.
'We're just digging around, there is no way of knowing where to look,' he told AP.
Another resident of Teresopolis told AFP: 'One woman tried to save her children, but her two-month-old baby was carried away by a torrent like a doll.'
The Brazilian armed forces have brought in a field hospital and hundreds of people have taken refuge in the gymnasium in Teresopolis.
But the number of injured was threatening to overwhelm the medical services.
Jorge Mario, the mayor of the Teresopolis, said: 'There are three or four neighbourhoods that were totally destroyed in rural areas. There are hardly any houses standing there and all the roads and bridges are destroyed.'
In one dramatic filmed rescue, 53-year-old Ilair Pereira de Souza was pulled by rope from a destroyed house surrounded by raging water.
'I thought I was going to die,' she said.
Ms Pereira de Souza had jumped with her dog Beethoven but was forced to let him go to survive.
'If I had tried to save him, I would have died. The poor thing. He stayed for a moment looking me in the eyes, and then he was swept away.'
President Rousseff visited the area on Thursday and vowed a shipment of seven tonnes of medicines.
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Heavy rain has brought massive mudslides down on several towns, where thousands have been made homeless.
Police say the number of dead is likely to rise further, but the disaster is already the worst the country has seen.
The death toll has surpassed that of mudslides in Caraguatatuba in Sao Paulo state in 1967 in which up to 430 people died.
President Dilma Rousseff visited and expressed solidarity with communities.
'It's all gone'
Darkness has fallen in the mountainous Serrana region, north of Rio de Janeiro, bringing a pause in the work of more than 800 rescue workers.
Many have spent Thursday scrabbling with their bare hands through debris.
In the Campo Grande area of Teresopolis, which was earlier cut off, rescuers found family members pulling bodies from the mud.
One Campo Grande resident, Carols Eurico, told the Associated Press: 'I have friends still lost in all of this mud. It's all gone. It's all over now. We're putting ourselves in the hands of God.'
Another resident, Nilson Martins, held a lucky pet rabbit that had survived.
'We're just digging around, there is no way of knowing where to look,' he told AP.
Another resident of Teresopolis told AFP: 'One woman tried to save her children, but her two-month-old baby was carried away by a torrent like a doll.'
The Brazilian armed forces have brought in a field hospital and hundreds of people have taken refuge in the gymnasium in Teresopolis.
But the number of injured was threatening to overwhelm the medical services.
Jorge Mario, the mayor of the Teresopolis, said: 'There are three or four neighbourhoods that were totally destroyed in rural areas. There are hardly any houses standing there and all the roads and bridges are destroyed.'
In one dramatic filmed rescue, 53-year-old Ilair Pereira de Souza was pulled by rope from a destroyed house surrounded by raging water.
'I thought I was going to die,' she said.
Ms Pereira de Souza had jumped with her dog Beethoven but was forced to let him go to survive.
'If I had tried to save him, I would have died. The poor thing. He stayed for a moment looking me in the eyes, and then he was swept away.'
President Rousseff visited the area on Thursday and vowed a shipment of seven tonnes of medicines.
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