Israel has sent a humanitarian delegation to Brazil to help in the search for the tragedy of Minas Gerais

A humanitarian delegation with 130 Israeli soldiers and volunteers He left this Sunday for Brazil to participate in the research after the break-up of a dam that left at least 50 dead and between 250 and 300 missing.

Engineers, doctors, firefighters and engineering experts They embarked for a 14-hour flight to the Belo Horizonte airport, located near the quake-hit area of ​​Minas Gerais, the lieutenant colonel announced. Jonathan Conricus, in a telephone press conference.

The delegation follows the instructions given by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the army and its main mission help "to locate and save missing persons".

The area they will work in is a flooded rural area. They will therefore use advanced mobile location means, underwater radar and unmanned aerial vehicles to study the response environment.said the military spokesman.

The ambbadador of Israel to Brazil, Yossi Sheli, who was in Israel, is also returning to Brazil with the members of the delegation that will be in the country of South America for about a week.

"The IDF and the State of Israel will continue to help after any disaster in the world requiring their experience and capabilities"said the Israeli army in a statement.

This is the second ecological disaster suffered by Brazil in less than three years, when the dams of a mining plant in Samarco (controlled by Vale and BPH) collapsed in the same state, causing untold damage to 650 kilometers in the basin. of the Doce River.