Aid sought for Brazil’s stricken cities
NZPA-Reuter Rio de Janeiro Brazilian officials pleaded for millions of dollars in aid for cities buried beneath mudslides and floodwaters, from Rio de Janeiro where at least 80 people died over the week-end to Rio Branco, which one official said was threatened by total ruin. Following three weeks of rain, the death toll in Rio de Janeiro state alone was put at 275, with 735 more people injured and 9939 made homeless, Civil Defence said. ~ An official forecast for
more rain on Tuesday proved to be wrong, and the sun returned in the afternoon. As floodwaters ebbed, they left a panorama of destruction. Civil Defence authorities remained on alert as experts feared the possibility of new landslides and rockslides.
In Rio Branco, capital of the western Brazilian state of Acre, hollowcheeked, starving survivors walked aimlessly through their ruined city as Government aid operations tried to feed them and vaccinate them against disease.
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Press, 25 February 1988, Page 8
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