Burying dead grim task after Brazil mudslides
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil – As night fell, barefoot volunteers dragged a generator and stadium lights into a town cemetery, where nearly 200 freshly dug graves lay open like wounds in the red clay soil, waiting for some of the hundreds killed by torrential rains. Funerals already had been held all day as a light rain persisted Thursday: a sister laying her brother to rest, a man burying his 1-year-old niece in a small white casket, a mother who cried her 9-year-old son’s name repeatedly as he was lowered into the earth. Small, handmade white crosses identified only by numbers – the details would have to come later – dotted the desolate, sodden hilltop. Dozens more funerals will come Friday and 300…
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Burying dead grim task after Brazil mudslides
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