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The Brumadinho tragedy (MG), which occurred on Friday the 25th, is expected to become the worst disaster of the last ten years. The statement was announced by the International Labor Organization (ILO), which issued a statement Monday stressing the need for an overall strengthening of security measures in mining.
"This is the worst disaster in a dam during the decade," said the entity, which monitors workplace accidents around the world. His badessment takes into account the potential number of deaths in Brazil. According to the latest bulletin published by the authorities, 65 people died as a result of the rupture of the Vale Dam in Brumadinho.
The tragedy of Minas Gerais is behind the 113 dead in Myanmar, when a dam was broken in 2015. However, the projection of the ILO is also based on the 279 missing in the city of Minas Gerais. In September 2008, the rupture of a dam in Shanxi, China, had killed at least 254 people.
The ILO had warned that other tragedies involving similar situations had caused "even more loss of life in the past", all regions of the world. "
In 1965, an accident in Chile caused the death of more than 300 people and destroyed the town of El Cobre.A year later, in Bulgaria, another dam would officially make 107 deaths. , however, report more than 480 victims in the country who lived at the time under the communist regime.
Western Europe also suffered the impact of In 1985, more than 285 people died in Italy
The ILO further states that Brazil has ratified an international convention aimed at guaranteeing safety and health in the country. mining activities in 2004, nine years after the approval of the instrument [19659002] "This tragedy is a sad reminder of the crucial importance of a system guaranteeing the safety and health of workers and the protection of their communities, "said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.
According to him, the ILO continues to be willing to help Brazil strengthen these mechanisms to "prevent future accidents".
