Brazil counts cost

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33498, 1 April 1974, Page 13

Brazil counts cost

TUBARAO (Brazil), March 31. Tubarao i> taking Mock toda) of the staggering losses inflicted ht one of the most disastrous floods in Brazilian history. A city planning and tech-nical-education institute estimates that the damage ’ amounts to at least ■$US25Om ;n urban and rural areas of the county. Crops have been \siped .out, industries severely ! crippled, and commerce shut ’down. , i The Mayor (Dr Irni’to Feuerschuette) says that 150 bodies had been recovered (from the path of the lu- [ barao river rampage, and | predicts that the toll of dead land missing may reach a [figure between 500 and 1000. j The surviving Tubarao I residents are still shovelling mud from their damaged (homes and waiting in long lines for food and water raI tions A week after the flood, the citv is still without electricity and pipe water. Captain Paulo Soares de Souza, the deputy commander of the army infantry coni pany in Tubarao, said: “There are no exact figure* for refugees yet, but I would say that 15,000 are without homes." The Santa Catarina State Civil Defence office sa> s that at least 5000 peopl have left that Brazilian civ which was to all intents an purposes destroyed.