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Weekend News Today
Lead: Faith
Source: BBC News
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Fri Jan 17,2003 -- At least 27 people have died after mudslides triggered by torrential rains devastated homes and villages in SE Brazil. The torrential downpour swept through two states on Thursday, leaving 70 people injured and more than 7,000 unable to return to their homes, the authorities said. Many homes in the area are built precariously in hillside shanty towns. But, the worst damage was in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil's 4th-largest metropolitan area, where at least 15 people were killed.

While flash flooding is common in Brazil, the SE region has suffered unusually heavy rains in the past few months. More than 50 people also died in December after particularly heavy rainfall.