Aerial view of an isolated area severely hit by landslides near Teresopolis, some 100 km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 18, 2011. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

利斯附近被泥石流严重冲击的孤立区域鸟瞰图，离里约热内卢100公里处，巴西，20110118 (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

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In Rio de Janeiro state, flooding and mudslides turned the once-picturesque tourist town of Teresopolis into a wasteland.

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Outside a makeshift morgue in Teresopolis -- where the government said at least 292 people had died in flooding -- a crowd of people waited for their turn to identify loved ones.

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