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Displaced residents from a dam collapse in Laos which swamped several villages, are undergoing treatment at Sanamxay hospital in Attapeu province. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
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
Equipped with inflatable boats, Ukrainian military and police forces evacuate Kherson residents from the flooded areas of the city, following the collapse of Russian-held Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine is evacuating thousands after the dam's destruction unleashed a torrent of water, inundating two dozen villages and the city of Kherson. Both Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the incident. IMAGES
Eight people "do not respond to calls" following the collapse of a building in Marseille, announced the city's prosecutor, Dominique Laurens. SOUNDBITE
A doctor is thought to be trapped beneath the rubble after two small buildings collapsed in a commercial street in the centre of the northern French city of Lille, according to emergency services. The homes were evacuated during the night as a precautionary measure following a warning by a resident that one of the walls was "warped", police said. IMAGES
Munich (Germany), Sep 28 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Philipp Guelland) A Munich court today opened a civil lawsuit against the German technical inspection agency TUEV for the rupture of the Brumadinho dam in that Brazilian town in the state of Minas Gerais, in 2019, which caused more than 300 fatalities and disappearances.FOOTAGE FROM OUTSIDE THE MUNICH COURT WHERE THE CIVIL LAWSUIT WAS CARRIED OUT AGAINST THE GERMAN COMPANY TUEV FOR NEGLIGENCE AFTER THE BREAKAGE OF THE BRUMADINHO PRESS (BRAZIL), WHICH CAUSED ABOUT 300 VICTIMS
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