Madeira: toll from flood disaster expected to rise

Published: 1:46PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Link to this video

Emergency crews in some-more than 400 vehicles together with bulldozers worked all by the night to transparent tons of caked mud, boulders and snapped trees that had piled up in the collateral of Funchal and alternative coastal communities, authorities said.

After a month"s value of sleet fell in about eight hours, a distracted swell of H2O and sand swept afar people, houses and vehicles on Saturday on the steep-sloped Atlantic Ocean island. Locals pronounced the charge was the misfortune in vital memory.

Dramatic footage prisoner of Madeira floods Madeira: form Madeira: British lady swept to genocide in floods Madeira floods in cinema Prince William in the RAF: Sarf called out 1,000 times a year to rescue civilians Missing workers feared passed in Siberian hydroelectric plant mess

Only 4 people were strictly unaccounted for on Monday, but officials pronounced there could be serve victims since shut off roads and downed phone lines done it formidable to get a finish design of the damage.

Parts of downtown Funchal were cordoned off as crews pumped rainwater and sludge out of a selling centre"s subterraneous car play ground where officials fright some-more bodies might be found.

The victims enclosed a British tourist, Pamela Gaines, 50, who died after her cab was swept down a bank by distracted floodwater.