2009年5月5日星期二

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil

Heavy rains kill 19 in Brazil, leave 186K homeless (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2009 06:47 PM PDT

In this photo released by Brazil's Presidency, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva watches floods in Teresina, state of Piaui, Brazil, Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Officials said floods and mudslides from heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have killed at least 14 people in the last month and driven tens of thousands from their homes. (AP Photo/Ricardo Stuckert, Brazil's Presidency)AP - Floods and mudslides from months of heavy rains in northern Brazil have driven more than 186,000 from their homes, killed at least 19 people and cut off shipments from a huge Amazon iron mine, officials said Tuesday.


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