World Digest: 200 feared dead in new landslide in metro Rio de Janeiro
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200 feared dead in new landslide
As many as 200 people were buried under tons of mud and feared dead Thursday after a slum built atop a former landfill gave way in the latest deadly landslide to hit metro Rio de Janeiro.
If confirmed, the deaths would raise the toll sharply from the 153 people already known to have died this week in slides triggered by record rains.
“We know that about 60 houses were buried,” said Sergio Cortés, health secretary for Rio state. “It is hard to say exactly how many people were buried . . . but a worst-case scenario is 200.”
The slide that hit late Wednesday was a wall of black earth and garbage about 40 feet high that plowed through the Morro Bumba shantytown before coming to a halt along the edge of a road in Niteroi, a city of about 500,000 across the bay from Rio.
“In our experience, it’s an instant death” for anyone caught in such a slide, said Pedro Machado, undersecretary of Rio state’s Civil Defense department.
