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Reuters: Rains Kill At Least 95 In Rio, Paralyze City

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Tags: Brazil, Flood, Mudslide, Rain, Rio de Janeiro

Landslides and floods set off by the heaviest rains in decades killed at least 95 people in Rio de Janeiro state, making hundreds homeless, flooding roads and paralyzing Brazil's second city on Tuesday.

Mudslides swept away shacks in Rio's hillside slums, turning the city's main lake and the sea brown during the heavy rains that started on Monday and continued to fall through most of Tuesday.

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