RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro braced for more rain on Wednesday as the death toll from flooding climbed to 104 and order slowly returned to Brazil's second-biggest city that was thrown into chaos a day earlier.
Rio's mayor said traffic had improved after the heaviest rains in at least three decades on Tuesday turned highways into lakes, left commuters and residents stranded and sparked mudslides that crushed houses in hillsides slums.
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