Source:
The GuardianRescuers hail 'miracle' as six-month-old Nicolas Barreto and his father survive landslides that left 500 dead
Tom Phillips in Teresópolis | Friday January 14 2011 12.33 GMT
Six-month-old baby Nicolas Barreto is rescued from the mudslide
in Nova Friburgo, Brazil.News of the "miracle" rescue of a six-month-old Brazilian boy provided a rare moment of hope yesterday as the death toll from this week's devastating landslides continued to rise.
Nicolas Barreto was reportedly at his grandmother's home in the hilltop town of Nova Friburgo, one of the worst-affected settlements, when a cascade of earth and debris swallowed up the area early on Wednesday.
He and his father were presumed to have died in the disaster, which has claimed more than 500 lives.
Nearly 15 hours later, however, elated Brazilian firefighters – including some who helped out after Haiti's 2010 earthquake exactly a year earlier – discovered Nicolas alive and well with his father, Wellington da Silva Guimarães.
Read more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/14/brazil-landslides-miracle-baby-nicolas-barreto
(Posted separately from
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4696032">the main Brazil landslides thread as I thought it was a news story in its own right)