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Brazil mudslide, flood death toll rises to 84
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-11-26 10:21  Residents loot a flooded supermarket in Itajai city in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina November 25, 2008. Isolated towns in southern Brazil appealed for medicine and other supplies on Tuesday as the deaths from landslides rose to 84 and thousands of people remained cut off from aid, clean water and power. Days of heavy rain have devastated areas of Santa Catarina state, the heartland of German and Italian immigrants in Brazil, burying houses and their residents in rivers of mud, collapsing roads and forcing 53,900 people out of their homes. [Agencies]
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