Brasilia: More than 500 people have been killed in floods in south-eastern Brazil.
Heavy rain has brought massive mudslides down on several towns, where thousands have been made homeless.
Authorities said that the number of dead was likely to rise further.
The death toll has now increases to the number killed in mudslides in Caraguatatuba in Sao Paulo state in 1967, in which up to 430 people died.
‘The Brazilian armed forces have brought in a field hospital and hundreds of people have taken refuge in the gymnasium in Teresopolis but the number of injured was threatening to overwhelm the medical services.
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