Rescuers and firefighters remove the body
of a victim from a pile of mud and debris,
four days after the collapse of a dam at an
iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil’s giant
mining company Vale near the town of
Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais,
southeastern Brazil, on January 28, 2019.
Mauro Pimentel / AFP
The toll from a dam collapse at a mine in
southeast Brazil’s Minas Gerais state has
risen to 157 deaths after nearly two weeks
of searches, with 182 missing, authorities
said Thursday.
Those listed as missing are presumed
dead, but not yet located under the layers
of muddy mining waste released when the
tailings dam broke apart in the town of
Brumadinho on January 25.
In recent days, rescue teams have battled
rains which limited their ability to fly
helicopters over the area.
Virtually all the dead and missing were
workers at the iron ore mine, buried under
an avalanche of sludgy mining waste when
the dam collapsed above the facility’s
cafeteria and main administrative area.
Source:
www.channelstv.com/2019/02/08/
brazil-dam-disaster-157-killed-182-missing/
Rescuers and firefighters remove the body
of a victim from a pile of mud and debris,
four days after the collapse of a dam at an
iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil’s giant
mining company Vale near the town of
Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais,
southeastern Brazil, on January 28, 2019.
Mauro Pimentel / AFP
The toll from a dam collapse at a mine in
southeast Brazil’s Minas Gerais state has
risen to 157 deaths after nearly two weeks
of searches, with 182 missing, authorities
said Thursday.
Those listed as missing are presumed
dead, but not yet located under the layers
of muddy mining waste released when the
tailings dam broke apart in the town of
Brumadinho on January 25.
In recent days, rescue teams have battled
rains which limited their ability to fly
helicopters over the area.
Virtually all the dead and missing were
workers at the iron ore mine, buried under
an avalanche of sludgy mining waste when
the dam collapsed above the facility’s
cafeteria and main administrative area.
Source:
www.channelstv.com/2019/02/08/
brazil-dam-disaster-157-killed-182-missing/
