RIO – At a press conference, Lieutenant Pedro Aihara of the fire brigade reported that a bus with dead pbadengers was found by rescuers in the area near the break of the dam. Vale, to Brumadinho
. The team will need special equipment to remove the buried vehicle.
– As it is a place hard to reach and we need special equipment to access this structure and eliminate the victims, we have not yet closed the number of dead. But this number of deaths, it will increase, "said the spokesman of the fire department.
According to official sources, 300 people have disappeared, according to firefighters Minas Gerais.
until now, only eleven bodies had been removed
. There is no update on the number of victims after the discovery of the vehicle.
According to Aihara, the occupants of the bus were miners' employees and there were no survivors in the vehicle. The bus was part of one of the search points of the rescue teams, as well as a locomotive, a building that collapsed and a community of Parque. das Cachoeiras.
Colonel Edgard Estevo, commander of the Minas Gerais Fire Department, reported Saturday that 299 people were reported missing in Brumadinho (MG).
. Eleven bodies were removed from the disaster area. According to the commander, the research work should last for weeks.