The fall of the dam in Brazil has already left 34 dead and some 300 missing

The tragic breakage of a dyke of mining waste in Brazil he left 34 dead and some 300 missing in the vicinity of the city of Brumadinho, as confirmed by the state fire department Minas Geraiswhere the event happened. The research in the region "will last for weeks, so we will be able to give news to all the families of the missing," said Colonel Edgard Estevo, commander of the state fire department. In this context, dozens of helicopters did not stop their work during the night and monitored the advance of the dark land in the region.

Tragedy in Brazil: a dam collapsed and there are at least 50 dead and 300 missing

"There were people here, houses, I'm devastated by this tragedy," he told the agency AFP Rosilene Aganetti, 57, showing the muddy river that is falling furiously into a nearby town. Instead they were destroyed houses, destroyed structures and covered vehicles for the impressive brown tide. State Governor Romeu Zema said that the chances of saving the survivors were "minimal"but the fire department reported that three people were found alive and said that "it is possible to find more".

Meanwhile, the President Jair Bolsonaro He flew over the area by helicopter in the morning, but did not speak at the scene. He then said in Twitter "it is difficult to contemplate this landscape without moving" and promised to do everything within the reach of the government "to take care of the victims, minimize the damage, investigate the facts, seek justice and prevent new tragedies such as those of Mariana and Brumadinho ".

The mining dam that broke out Friday in southeastern Brazil It was 86 meters high, a containment capacity of 12 million cubic meters and had been considered safe by two recent inspections, according to Vale, the company that owns it. Dique I of the Córrego de Feijão mine, located in the municipality of Brumadinho (Minas Gerais), had not received new equipment for three years and He was being dismantled, according to AFP. It was built in 1976 by the company Ferteco Mineração, acquired by Vale in April 2001. The causes of the accident are still unknown.

According to Vale's president, Fábio Schvartsman, an audit certified the safety of the dam on January 10th of this year. And a German company, TÜV SÜD, ensured its stability in September 2018. The disaster occurred around 13:00 (15:00 GMT) Friday in the municipality of Brumadinho, 60 km from Belo Horizonte (capital of Minas Gerais) ), burying a good part of the facilities of Vale's Córrego do Feijão mining complex.