In Brazil, broke the dam of a tailings basin, the sludge flooded the area and flooded a part of the city of Brumadinho. The fire Department reports several Deaths.
Three years after the pollution of the Rio Doce, a new environmental disaster threatens in Brazil In Brumadinho, near the city of Belo Horizonte, the dam of the tailings basin of an iron ore mine collapsed, a mudslide flooded the Region. The Mine belongs to the group of Vale. According to the company, the administrative building of the sludge were achieved in wave. As a part of the city was flooded. Television show images of mud-trapped cars and homes. It is unclear which substances are contained in the sludge.
Concrete Figures about the injured or victims is not yet available. There had been “several Deaths,” said a representative of the fire Department to the AFP news Agency.
memories of November 2015
Vale was involved in the accident in Mariana in November 2015. At that time, a mud wave 19 people, buried and killed multiple towns and polluted the Rio Doce and several tributaries. Until today, hundreds of families are waiting for compensation from the mining company Samarco, which is a subsidiary of Australia’s BHP Billiton and Brazil’s Vale.
to strengthen After the disaster, the authorities, the rules for the mining operation, and control of the tailings basin had promised. Environmentalists complain that this was not done.
