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Drone videos show fatal landslide in Brazil's Amazon

STORY: Drone footage of the landslide aftermath showed the destruction caused in a housing area located in a high-risk zone at the capital city of the Amazonas state, in the Brazilian Amazon.

"Those people were there because they had nowhere else to go," said a victim of the downpour, Edineusa Soares.

During the early hours of Monday, locals and rescue workers worked together to look for survivors amongst the debris.

Four of the mortal victims were adults and four were children and three survivors were rescued, according to local media.