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Fri 01 Jan 2011Landslides kill at least 380 people in Rio de Janeiro
DEADLY LANDSLIDES triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 380 people in towns in Rio de Janeiro state as Brazil’s southeast battles an exceptionally fierce rainy season.
Following weeks of heavy rain, rivers of mud crashed through neighbourhoods in the central mountain region of the state as people slept in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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