Word: cubatao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cubatao, Brazil, Feb. 25,1984. Gasoline from a leaky pipeline in this southeast Brazilian town exploded into a giant fireball that killed at least 500 people...
...death toll from a devastating fire last Feb. 25 in the shantytown-or favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble...
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