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Brazil dam collapse (Photo Credit: Cnn)

Brazil dam collapse (Photo Credit: Cnn)

Death toll from Brazil dam disaster hits 58

byAgency Report
January 28, 2019
2 min read

The death toll from Brazil’s collapsed tailings dam climbed to 58, with 305 people still missing in southeast Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, said local authorities on Monday.

Local authorities said that of the 58 victims, 19 have been identified.

According to the state fire department, the missing people include residents of the destroyed area and workers from Brazilian mining company Vale.

Search and rescue work started on Sunday. However, one and a half hours later, an alarm was activated as there was a risk that another dam of the Corrego do Feijao mine complex, this time a water dam, could rupture as well.

Rescue efforts were immediately suspended.

Thousands of residents were ordered to move to safe places, as they risked being in the path of destruction.

Rescue work, however, resumed at 3 p.m. (1700 GMT), after the dam was being drained, and evacuation was called off after the dam was no longer at risk of bursting.

“The chances of finding more survivors of Friday’s tailing dam disaster “are really slim,’’ Eduardo Angelo, chief of the fire department said on Sunday.

“However, we are working with the possibility of finding people alive,’’ he added.

Angelo, during a meeting with residents of the nearby community of Corrego do Feijao, which was flooded by the toxic sludge, said time was running out.

“There is the possibility of finding people alive, yes. However, what has been written about these kinds of events shows that after 48 hours of efforts, the chances of finding survivors are really slim.

“Rescue workers are facing certain logistical challenges reaching survivors. We aren’t able to reach them, because as we advance through the mud, we find bodies. Each body we find, we do the work and return.

“Yesterday we located a bus, but as we were getting to it, we found a body, and then another, and another. Today we will reach the bus. We have to excavate it,’’ Angelo said.

An Israeli team of about 130 soldiers with sniff dogs and 16 tons of equipment including sonar devices arrived at the scene by Sunday.

They are expected to join in the search and rescue work with Brazilian workers later.

(Xinhua/NAN)

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