Eight employees of mining giant Vale were temporarily arrested today (Feb 15) as part of an operation launched by prosecutors in Minas Gerais state, backed by civil and military police in Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil’s National Mining Agency (ANM) ordered that mining companies must carry out daily inspections on tailings dams like that of Brumadinho, which collapsed on January 25 leaving 160 dead and 160 missing up to now.
Approximately 500 residents of the city of Barão de Cocais, in Minas Gerais state, 100 km from state capital Belo Horizonte, were removed from their homes in the early hours today (Feb.
Agents from the Minas Gerais Fire Department reported Friday (Feb. 1) no estimates can be made for the end of the efforts to locate the victims of mining giant Vale’s mining tailings dam failure, which took place on January 25, in the Brumadinho region.
The number of people killed after the collapse of a dam owned by mining giant Vale, in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, went up to 65, according to data released by the state’s Civil Defense. Thirty-one bodies have been identified so far.