Brazil deluge kills 36; dozens missing

Hundreds of rescuers searched Monday for survivors of landslides and flooding that killed at least 36 people along the coast of Brazil’s southern state of Sao Paulo following a huge weekend downpour.

Worst hit was the city of Sao Sebastiao, where at least 35 were dead. A woman who gave only her first name, Mailsa, said she and her husband, daughter and grandson only barely escaped when a landslide destroyed her house in the Juquehy municipality of Sao Sebastiao.

The house was partially submerged, parts of it fell away and the rest was left precariously perched on the edge of a hill.Gov. Tarcisio de Freitas told television network Globo that another 40 people were missing.Nearly 800 people were homeless and 1,730 people have been displaced, his state government said in a statement.