Search for hundreds of missing people resumed after the collapse of a dam in Minas Gerais

The search for hundreds of missing persons resumed in Brumadinho, after ruling out the risk of seeing another broken dam in this southeastern Brazilian city, where the collapse of a mining dam has made dozens of dead Friday.

The mining company Vale announced on Sunday a new list updated with the names of 287 employees missing. The recent document added the name of 35 people.

According to the information available, there have so far been 37 deaths, of which only 16 have been identified, reported the local civilian police. As, they were able to save 192 people.

"Of the 16 people, eight have already been delivered to the family for funerals," said the Minas Gerais Civil Police Chief, Wagner Pinto de Souza, at the Brazil agency. The Civil Defense confirmed this afternoon that the situation of another dam "came back to level 1 alert".

According to the fire department, "they planned to evacuate 24,000 people from their homes, as there were between 3 and 4 million cubic meters of water in the dam's compartment. R6 ".

However, pumping the liquid inside the structure, only 3,000 residents were displaced, said several Brazilian media. In addition, the Military Police of the State of Minas indicated that the donations collected for the affected people "are sufficient".

The research was halted this Sunday because of the risk of another breakup of the Vale mining complex in Brumadinho, the city where the Inhotim open air museum is located.

Some residents of Corrego Feijao, Tejuco and Parque das Cachoeiras communities were evacuated and moved further up the area before the possibility of the collapse of the B VI dam, which contained between three and four million cubic meters of water.

"I went to the hospital to accompany a neighbor who felt bad for his heart and they told us that we could not go back, but we have to get our things back, we have to get our daughter back who is with the grandmother, "she told the agency Efe Marcos Vinicius Pinto, 36, was on a bridge and could not go to the other side, where his home is, because the authorities restricted access to the area.