SÃO PAULO—Landslides killed more than 100 people and left dozens more missing this week in the historic mountain city of Petrópolis, Brazil, sending distraught relatives and emergency crews on a desperate search Thursday for survivors in deep mud that covered whole neighborhoods.
The region’s heaviest rainfall in 90 years triggered mass mudslides in the picturesque city, crushing homes, toppling buses and sending massive rocks the size of cars hurtling down hillsides. Police had recovered 105 bodies and have reports that another 134 are missing in Petrópolis, located north of Rio de Janeiro.