Brazil - Dam collapse, hundreds missing after mining disaster, Brumadinho, 25 Jan 2019

[cybervampira]

Brazil dam collapse: hundreds missing after mining disaster

About 200 people are missing after a mining dam collapsed in south-eastern Brazil, flooding a nearby community and raising fears of widespread contamination.

The disaster, in the municipality of Brumadinho in the state of Minas Gerais, released a wave of orange sludge after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Brazilian miner Vale SA on Friday.

Emergency workers in the city of Belo Horizonte said scores of people were still trapped in affected areas.

Local television channel TV Record showed a firefighter’s helicopter hovering inches off the ground as it hoisted a woman covered in mud out of the sludge.

Another local TV channel showed a video shot by firefighters arriving on the scene showing an extensive area covered in mud.

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[Pi Thoughts]

The death toll from a mining dam wall collapse in Brazil has jumped to nine and about 300 people still missing.

Workers with Brazilian mining company Vale were eating lunch when the dam that held back waste collapsed, burying a restaurant and surrounding community in Brumadinho in reddish-brown sludge.

The status of the workers and others in the city was unknown late yesterday, hours after what President Jair Bolsonaro and other officials were already describing as a "tragedy."
Dam wall collapse and mudslide kills nine, leaves 300 missing

 

[MsFacetious]

Horrendous.

 

[cybervampira]

9 dead and hundreds are missing as rescuers scour mud after Brazil dam collapse

At least nine people are confirmed dead and hundreds are missing Saturday after a dam burst a day earlier at a Brazilian iron mine, causing severe flooding in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, according to local authorities.

The number of missing more than doubled since authorities' last report Friday, hours after the rupture.

Aerial footage showed the city of Brumadinho covered in mud. In video Friday from CNN affiliate Record TV, helicopters hovered near the ground as firefighters pulled people from the muck and airlifted them away.

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[cybervampira]

Search on for up to 200 missing after Brazil dam collapse

The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 34 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more bodies. More than 200 people were still missing and authorities expected the death toll to rise during a search made more challenging by intermittent rains.

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[cybervampira]

Brazil Dam Disaster: 60 People Are Dead, With Hundreds More Missing

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Search crews are looking for up to 300 missing people in southeastern Brazil, after a dam at an iron ore mining complex collapsed Friday, releasing a deluge of muddy mine waste that swallowed part of a town. Since then, the death toll has risen to 60, according to Brazilian media outletsciting the area fire brigade, and the safety practices of the mine's owner have come under scrutiny.

"Authorities say many of the missing are likely buried deep in mud," Catherine Osborn reports for NPR from Brumadinho.

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[iulia]

Dam break in Brazil: rescue workers found almost 100 Dead | CRYPTO COIN DISCOVERY

After the disastrous dam break in an iron ore mine in Brazil, the forces are finding more and more Dead. 99 bodies had been in the mud masses found, said the civil protection.

57 the Dead have been identified already. Still 259 people were considered to be missing. The death toll is likely to rise further. According to the rescuers, there are hardly any prospects to find other Survivors. The last Survivors had been recovered on Saturday morning.

 

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[CoverMeCagney]

Just watched that a couple of times on a larger screen. Interesting to see that the train stopped for 30 seconds or so and then seems to reverse and derail (or are my eyes playing tricks on me?). Also the two vehicles - the car which drives towards the path of the flow and then the larger vehicle from the bottom right corner in a race against time. I wonder if those people survived.

 

[human]

Northern Minnesotans are so excited as the company marches on to make such a dam which will affect the largest fresh water lake in the world. Lake Superior.

 

[MsFacetious]

O.M.G! This is incomprehensible. I am speechless.
This is from below the dam, not the side view the other video is.

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[iulia]

Brazil: Health concerns mount as death toll rises in dam collapse | Devdiscourse News

The death toll in Vale-owned tailings dam collapse here has gone up to 142, with 194 people still missing in the aftermath of January 25 tragedy.

 

[iulia]

A year after the disaster that unleashed millions of tons of mining waste in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, de Oliveira still hopes Lecilda’s body will be found beneath the mud.

Her sister was among 270 people killed in the huge avalanche of toxic sludge that buried houses and swaths of countryside in the mineral-rich region on January 25.

The official death toll is 259, but scores of firefighters are still picking through the dried mud for the bodies of 11 people listed as missing but certainly dead.

Lecilda’s is one of them.

A year after Brazil dam breach, the mud has dried but not the tears | AFP | Rekord East

 

[Hatfield]

A year after the disaster that unleashed millions of tons of mining waste in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, de Oliveira still hopes Lecilda’s body will be found beneath the mud.

Her sister was among 270 people killed in the huge avalanche of toxic sludge that buried houses and swaths of countryside in the mineral-rich region on January 25.

The official death toll is 259, but scores of firefighters are still picking through the dried mud for the bodies of 11 people listed as missing but certainly dead.

Lecilda’s is one of them.

A year after Brazil dam breach, the mud has dried but not the tears | AFP | Rekord East

Even though this case is about a year old it is still upsetting to read about.

I totally agree with the person that said this in the linked article.

"Cases like these are not accidents but environmental crimes that should be investigated, punished and repaired.”

Brazil dam collapse: 10 bodies found and hundreds missing

I hope the company that was responsible for maintaining that Dam is held responsible and not just a slap on the wrist.