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The Civil Defense of Minas Gerais announced today (31) to have increased the number of deaths during the disaster of the Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho, near Belo Horizonte. At last count, 110 dead, 238 missing and 394 identified. Of the dead, 71 were identified by civilian police reviews. There are also 108 homeless and six hospitalized
. The civilian police collect testimonies from survivors and collect DNA samples. According to the civilian police, material was collected from 210 people representing 108 families.
According to the delegate of the civilian police, Arlen Bahia, of the 71 corpses, 60 have already been identified and handed over to family members. The other 11 are at the Medical Legal Institute (IML) awaiting release by their relatives.
"It is still possible, in some cases, to proceed to the identification of fingerprints, but from now on, with the decomposition of bodies
The delegate also says that the Brumadinho police station will work 24 hours a day to meet family members and receive events, and a team is set up to participate in the expedition of the identities of relatives of family members who have been victims of the dam break-up.
Fire Department spokesman, Lieutenant Pedro Aihara, said the bodies found today were in the grave. Valley and in the area adjacent to the dam.According to Aihara, the operation will enter a more difficult phase because the localized bodies were in shallow areas. "
" At this stage, we enter a rather difficult phase, considering that the bodies that were in s more superficial places have already been located. Now, activities require digging and other techniques to recover certain segments of the body, so the number of bodies will increase, but the rate of discovery of the bodies will progress more slowly, "he said.
According to the Fire department, more than 360 military are working in the area with the support of 15 aircraft and 21 sniffer dogs.Yesterday (30), a team arrived from Santa Catarina and a plane from Espírito Santo. There are also 66 volunteers who work between the dry and flooded areas.These volunteers are people with technical skills.
Aihara said that because of the rain this afternoon, the situation of the mud
According to the lieutenant, dam VI is stable and not likely to be disturbed.In the afternoon it was raining heavily and research continued to be suspended. But because of the rain forecast for this
Lieutenant Coronel Flávio Godinho, coordinator of the Civil Defense of Minas Gerais, again stated that he would not do it. water shortages occur in the area. "The delivery continues normally, the only warning is for people who carry out the autonomous collection of water on the Paraopeba River.These people can not consume this water," he said.
According to Godinho, it has been defined this afternoon that 50 trucks each carrying 20,000 liters of drinking water will bring water to these people. The measure will meet the inhabitants upstream of the Paraopeba river up to the town of Pará de Minas
Due to the quality of the water, which has metal residues exceeding the limit allowed for consumption human and animal, the capture of water in the Paraopeba River by the cities of Paraopeba and Caetanópolis is suspended, but, according to Godinho, it is impossible for these two cities to remain without water supply.
"The Paraopeba system that may cause some attention in particular, the catch has been momentarily suspended.To meet the needs, water is collected in the Cedro River and in some artesian wells. monitoring of several bodies to measure the quality of water, "he said.
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