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A dam holding back waste water from an iron ore mine burst in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, devastating a nearby town with mudslides. Jillian Kitchener reports.
An alarm warning of an imminent mining dam rupture went up early Sunday in Brumadinho, the same Brazilian community where a dam collapsed killing 34 with hundreds more feared dead, firefighters and the mining company said. IMAGES of evacuated area
The Brazilian government says it will sue the owners of the Samarco iron ore mine for $5.2 billion over the deadly failure of a waste water dam. Paul Chapman reports.
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
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