Crescent 58 deaths due to the rupture of the dam in Brazil and there are 305 missing – 27/01/2019

Brazil remains in the midst of one of its worst mining tragedies, which has so far left 58 dead, 305 missing and a trail of total destruction in Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais.

As indicated by the Civil Defense, contrary to the previous days, the relief operations will continue during the night because firefighters found another micro with deceased pbadengers in an administrative area of ​​the mining complex where the tragedy occurred.

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The "imminent risk" that a second dam of the Vale mining company breaks down and causes a new disaster in the region, forced Sunday to paralyze research for much of the day and evacuate about 3,000 peoplealthough the majority are already allowed to return home.

The sub-lieutenant of the fire brigade of Minas Gerais, Gertel Vaz de Souza, said that initially it was estimated that about 24,000 people could be expelled from their homes "in all regions" of Brumadinho if the risk of rupture of the second dam, but the experts managed to control the situation.

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With the decrease of the risk of a new collapse, rescue teams resumed searches, hoping to find more survivors 48 hours after the disaster that "ended" with Brumadinho, according to the mayor of this city. city ​​of 33,000 inhabitants, Avimar de Melo.

"It's the saddest moment for Brumadinho," said the mayor.

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The balance of victims already exceeds that recorded in 2015 in a similar tragedy, when 19 people died after the collapse of a dam of mining company Samarco, controlled by Vale and BHP, in Minas Gerais.

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"We were expecting Vale to learn the lesson of what happened in Mariana," the mayor told the press.

In addition to human losses, Avimar de Melo lamented the economic consequences that the accident will have on the city, which depends largely on Vale's business, which he described as "inconsequential" and "incompetent".