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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
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
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
Firefighters rescue people trapped by floodwaters in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, where heavy rains have left at least 21 dead, according to authorities. IMAGES
Indigenous people from the Nukak community and Colombian soldiers arrive in the jungle to join the Special Forces soldiers already searching for the four Indigenous children missing in the jungle after a plane crash in the Amazon. IMAGES
Firemen and rescue teams search for missing people Cesena after heavy rains caused devastation across Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region, killing at least five people. IMAGES
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