Rio cleans up as sleet continues Tue, Apr 6 2010 Torrential rainfall floods Rio < 1 / 19 > RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of rescue workers scrambled on Thursday to find residents buried by a landslide nearby Rio de Janeiro as the genocide fee from complicated rains in Brazil"s second-largest city rose to 153.
The heaviest rains in some-more than 40 years, that proposed on Monday, triggered close to 200 mudslides that dejected shacks in bank slums, causing majority of the deaths and withdrawal thousands of people homeless.
Authorities contend at slightest 10,000 houses still are at risk of fall and the inhabitant supervision has sent security forces to assistance with rescue operations. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes has appealed to the sovereign supervision for 370 million reais ($208 million) in assist for puncture operations.
Search teams discovered twenty-one people from the disadvantage of houses swept afar by a mudslide late on Wednesday in the city of Niteroi, opposite a brook from Rio. They pronounced 6 bodies were pulled from the sand and an additional 70 are believed blank from that incident alone.
"It was a tragedy and the rescue work is still heated there. Unfortunately, there are reports of some-more bodies," pronounced a orator for the Rio de Janeiro glow department.
Paes pronounced the city would give tip priority to anticipating those still trapped underneath sand and rubble, Brazilian headlines network Globo reported, even if it meant ludicrous resources from regulating roads and mending movement in the city.
"The priority for all of us right away is human lives, in between opening roads and saving lives we would rather save lives," he said, according to Globo.
Most of the repairs was strong in slums where about a fifth of Rio"s people live, mostly in unsafe shacks. The area of Morro do Bumba, where the Wednesday night landslide occurred, was built atop a former rubbish dump.
Niteroi was the misfortune influenced area with at slightest 85 people dead, the glow dialect said, whilst 48 were killed in Rio.
For a third day, Paes urged Rio residents to stay home or at slightest equivocate roving to the city core as go on forecasts called for rains to go on until the weekend.
Traffic was issuing routinely in majority tools of the city on Thursday in contrariety to dual days progressing when the rains incited highways in to lakes, left drivers stuck in cars and forced a little commuters to travel home by miles of dripping streets.
The travel disharmony renewed courtesy on Rio"s bad infrastructure as it prepares to host the soccer World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016.
The International Olympic Committee pronounced in a matter on Wednesday it programmed to have discussions with Rio officials once the incident earnings to normal about how the mess competence affect preparations for the games.
(Writing by Brian Ellsworth; modifying by Elzio Barreto and Bill Trott)
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