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Brazil mudslides deadliest disaster since 1900

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

JANUARY 22, 2011 15:56

SAO PAULO — Brazilian officials said the floods and mudslides that hit Rio de Janeiro state last week were this country's deadliest natural disaster since 1900.

Civil defense authorities said that the death toll from slides triggered by deluges in mountain towns just north of Rio stood at 787 as of Saturday morning.

According to the Brussels-based International Disaster Database, the previous highest death toll in a natural disaster in Brazil was registered in 1967 when floods killed 785 in and around the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The organization's website lists Brazil's top 10 natural disasters between 1900 and 2011.

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