The mining disaster in Brazil has already killed 121 people

On the ninth day of searches, the numbers continue to slowly increase, although firefighters warn that excavation tasks are becoming more complex. He still misses 226.

The number of deaths due to the breakage of a dam from Vale's mining company in southeastern Brazil has risen from 115 to 121, according to the latest report released Saturday by the authorities.

The state fire department, Minas Gerais, also explained that there were 226 missing persons and that 93 bodies had already been identified on the ninth day of intense searches.

The tragedy ravaged Brumadinho, a town of 39,000 inhabitants 60 km from Belo Horizonte, when a dam of the Córrego do Feijao mining complex erupted on January 25, generating a huge tide of mud that wiped out everything it had find. your not

On Friday, local television aired a shocking series of security videos that show the exact moment when the huge dump collapses and the mudslide slides by.

Most of the dead and missing were working in the Vale mine and many of them were lunching at the company's canteen, one of the first structures hit by mud flooding.

The search, carried out by some 250 firefighters and several helicopters, will continue for an indefinite period, but the number of confirmed deaths is expected to increase slowly due to the difficulties of access to certain areas.

Fire spokesman Pedro Aihara told reporters that in some places the mud was 20 meters, which complicated the excavation work.

The tragedy, whose environmental impact is still unknown, only occurs three years after a similar accident in the same area, in a Samarco mine (joint project of Vale and the Australian BHP).

The disaster that hit the city of Mariana in 2015 resulted in fewer deaths (19), but devastated entire ecosystems and became the worst environmental disaster in the history of Brazil. (Infobae)