In Brazil, they evacuated hundreds of people at the risk of new mines.

Brazilian authorities evacuated on Friday for Hundreds of people in two municipalities of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, before the risk of rupture of new mining dams, after which it collapsed last January in Brumadinho and which has made 157 dead and 182 missing to date.

The first of the actions took place in the city of Cocoa Barao, about a hundred kilometers from the regional capital, Belo Horizonte, and or about 500 people from different neighborhoods were evicted from their homes.

The evacuation was determined by the National Mine Agency (ANM), after a consultant had denied the dam safety report "South Superior"in the mine Gongo Soco, belonging to the mining giant Vale, which was also part of the dam that erupted on January 25 near Brumadinho.

However, the company stressed that the decision is preventive and results from inspections this is done in the dams of the region, after the disaster that took place two weeks ago.

He also informed that he would set up a team capable of detecting everything. "millimeter movement"in the structure and that"international consultants"They will conduct a structural badessment next Sunday.

The dam "Upper South", built from the mining waste themselves and surrounding land – the same method used to build the Brumadinho mine, also in the state of Minas Gerais – is among the ten that Vale claimed to want to eliminate.

On the other hand, about 50 families from the Itatiaiuçu municipality, located about 80 kilometers from Belo Horizonte, were also evacuated from their homes early in the morning and transferred to a hotel in the interior of the state.

The reason was the risk of collapse of another dam located near this location and the steel producer's property. ArcelorMittal.

According to the fire department of Minas Gerais, the situation is under control.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian authorities are continuing rescue operations in Brumadinho, in southeastern Brazil, although the chances of finding survivors are ".minimal", and it is even possible that missing persons are never found in the sea of ​​mud that rushed from the dam.

The Brumadinho disaster occurred just three years after another incident similar to Mariana, a municipality that is also in the state of Minas Gerais and where the break-up of several dikes of the mining company Samarco, controlled by Vale and BHP Billiton, left 19 dead and an unprecedented environmental tragedy.

(With EFE information)