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On Wednesday, people assessed the damage and shared video of the destruction on social media. One video showed an underground canal exploding like a string of geysers. Another featured well-dressed Brazilians looking out from a tony restaurant as the street outside became a river, carrying away cars and debris. Another showed the collapse of a shopping mall roof.
The death toll rose to 62 on Wednesday after another round of battering rains and landslides across the states of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais, where waves of mud have knocked houses off cliffs and buried dozens of people alive. Belo Horizonte, the Minas Gerais state capital, has been hit particularly hard.