Brazil dam collapse leaves 34 Dead
Authorities said this weekend that the death toll from an industrial disaster in Brumadinho, Brazil in Minas Gerais state has climbed to at least 34, with some officials saying that the true toll could reach the hundreds.
Video from the scene showed helicopters hovering feet above the ground as firefighters plucked people from the muck and carried them away.
That’s a sharp increase from a prior count of 11 deaths from the disaster on Friday, in which a 280-foot dam owned by multinational mining giant Vale S.A. collapsed, flooding the area with almost 12 million cubic meters of sludge-like mining waste (known as tailings).
