Hungry flood survivors looted supermarkets and emergency crews tried to get aid to nearly 80,000 people driven from their homes as rain-spawned mudslides and overflowing rivers killed at least 97 people and isolated cities in southern Brazil.

Rescue workers found dozens of bodies as they dug desperately through the wreckage of homes engulfed by mudslides in southern Brazil, boosting the death toll from rain-spawned hillside collapses and floods to 84.