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Added on the 26/01/2019 11:41:00 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
Rescue workers search mud as more than 37 people are confirmed dead and 250 are still missing after a dam collapsed in the state of Minas Gerais. IMAGES
The President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro arrives to Confins, in southeast Brazil, to observe the damage created after a dam collapsed at a mine in Brumaldinho, Minas Gerais, killing at least nine. IMAGES
The collapse of a disused dam owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale in Brazil releases a massive torrent of mud that washed over the iron-ore extraction complex, leaving 200 people missing and a near-certainty of multiple deaths. IMAGES
Rescuers arrive at the scene of a dam collapse in southeast Brazil which has unleashed a torrent of mud on a riverside town and surrounding farmland, destroying houses, leaving 200 people missing and raising fears of a number of deaths, according to officials. IMAGES