Heart-rending pictures of the fire that destroyed a neighborhood in Brazil

Disaster In The Favelas

December 19, 2018 13:15 IST
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Disaster In The Favelas

A massive fire blazed through 600 wooden homes built on stilts next to a river in Brazil's Amazon region overnight, decimating a poor area of the city of Manaus but causing no deaths. An initial investigation suggests a pressure cooker on a stove started the fire, which rapidly spread, fanned by strong gusts of wind at the time, authorities said.
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