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Toll mounts as Brazil storm rescuers retrieve more bodies
Rescue workers pulled more bodies Saturday from the muddy wreckage left by devastating floods and landslides in the Brazilian city of Petropolis, where the death toll rose to 139, including 26 children.
In a dense fog, workers dug with spades and shovels through the rubble and muck as the search churned through its fifth day with little hope of finding more survivors.
An AFP photographer saw rescuers carrying out two recovered corpses in body bags in the hard-hit neighborhood of Alto da Serra, as relatives sobbed in the street.
In the heart of the disaster zone, rescue workers occasionally blew loud whistles to call for silence and listen for signs of life.
But authorities say there is little hope at this point of finding survivors from Tuesday's torrential rains.
The downpour turned streets to gushing rivers in the picturesque city in the southeastern mountains and triggered landslides in poor hillside neighborhoods that wiped out virtually everything in their path.
Officials say 24 people have been rescued alive, but that came mostly in the early hours after the tragedy.
Rio de Janeiro state police said 218 people remained missing as of late Friday.
Meanwhile, 91 of the 139 bodies recovered so far have been identified.
Many of the missing may be among the unidentified bodies. But the numbers have been hazy, and it is difficult to know how high the death toll could go.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who flew over the disaster zone Friday by helicopter, said the city was suffering from "enormous destruction, like scenes of war."
Tuesday's was the latest in a series of deadly storms to hit Brazil, which experts say are made worse by climate change.
In the past three months, at least 191 people have died in severe rains, mainly in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo and the northeastern state of Bahia, as well as Petropolis.
- 'Like ants' -
Normal life has been slow returning to central Petropolis, a charming tourist town that was the 19th-century summer capital of the Brazilian empire.
Staff were busy cleaning out shops in the city center, where little was open besides essential businesses such as supermarkets and pharmacies.
One book store owner had to dump her entire stock of water-logged books in the street.
"They were stocked in the basement. It filled with water all the way up to the ceiling," said Sandra Correa Neto, 52, her thousands of books waiting for the city's overloaded sanitation workers to collect them.
"We're so sad to lose all these books. We can't even donate them, they're too damaged. It pains me," she told AFP.
Elsewhere in the city center, family members cried as rescue workers dug through the ruins of a collapsed house, looking for the mother of a family of four.
The father and two children's bodies had already been recovered.
In the Alto da Serra neighborhood, atop the worst landslide, rescue workers in bright orange uniforms kept up a slow, dogged search alongside exhausted residents looking for their missing loved ones.
Authorities say the mountain of mud and rubble is unstable, so the search is being carried out with hand tools and chainsaws at the hardest-to-reach spots.
It would be too dangerous to bring in the excavators being used in less difficult zones near the bottom of the hillside, said Roberto Amaral, coordinator of the local fire department's special rescue group.
"It's impossible to bring in heavy machinery up here, so we basically have to work like ants, going little by little," he told AFP.
A sobering series of funerals meanwhile continued at the city's main cemetery, where 65 victims have been buried so far -- 19 on Saturday morning alone.
P.L.Madureira--PC