Ten bodies have been found and more than 400 people are unaccounted for after a dam operated by the mining firm Vale collapsed in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, releasing a wave of red iron ore waste and raising fears of widespread contamination.
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| Rescue workers search for victims after the collapse of the Brumadinho dam. |
The fire chief Col Edgar Estevão said 100 people had been rescued from the sea of mud released by the dam, according to the G1 news site. Firefighters said they had recovered 10 bodies by Saturday afternoon.
Vale released a list of 412 employees and contractors who were missing. The document lists 412 names of people whom it had been unable to contact and who may be victims of the mudslide. The fire brigade estimated that 300-350 people were missing.
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, visited Minas Gerais and flew over the disaster area on Saturday, after dispatching three ministers there on Friday.
Read the story from The Guardian by Dom Phillips - “Brazil dam collapse: 10 bodies found and hundreds missing.”
(This ugliness - in every sense - is just another example of our industrialised world; a way of living that is disrupting from our atmosphere to living conditions here on earth. We must change our behaviour - Robert McLean)
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