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		</div><p>Heavy rains blamed for the deaths of at least four people have continued to fall on Rio de Janeiro as officials closed schools and urged people to avoid non-essential traffic.</p>
<p>Torrents of water gushed down streets, sweeping up cars and uprooting trees following rains that began at around rush hour on Monday evening.</p>
<p>Mayor Marcelo Crivella said the Brazilian city faced a “crisis” and said heavy rains would continue.</p>
<p>City officials said 6in of rain fell in just four hours on Monday night, more than the average for the whole month of April.</p>
<p>The botanical garden neighbourhood, a tourist destination, was one of the most badly hit areas, receiving 9in in a 24-hour period.</p>
<p>Local television stations showed firefighters in that neighbourhood wading through knee-deep water pulling a small boatload of children evacuated from a school bus on a flooded street.</p>
<p>Sirens rang in 20 flood-risk areas of the city, alerting people to make their way to pre-established safe spaces.</p>
<p>But Mr Crivella said they were not triggered in the Babilonia slum, which sits on a hill behind the city’s famous Sugarloaf Mountain.</p>
<p>The fire department said two women there died in a mudslide and local residents complained about the lack of warning.</p>
<p>A third person drowned, officials said, but the circumstances in which a fourth person died remained unclear.</p>
<p>Hillside slums are particularly vulnerable to mudslides and city officials said more than 100 communities have been identified as having “high geological risks”.</p>
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