WORLD : Slide Kills 20 in Brazil Slum
A huge landslide engulfed a hillside slum in central Sao Paulo and at least 20 people, most of them children, are feared dead.
The city’s mayor, Luiza Erundina, promised to take legal action against developers who had been excavating at the crest of the hill above the slum.
A torrent of mud fell onto the Nova Republica slum in the southern section of Brazil’s biggest city Tuesday night, and firemen estimated there was enough to fill 5,000 trucks. “There are places where there is more than (20 feet) of earth,” one fireman said.
The Nova Republic slum is in the middle of Morumbi, a generally affluent district said to have the biggest concentration of millionaires in Sao Paulo.
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