Audio By VocalizeMinas Gerais' firefighters work at a collapsed nursing home in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil on March 5, 2026. [AFP]Twelve people died when a nursing home in southeastern Brazil collapsed, according to a tally released Friday by firefighters after they concluded search and rescue operations. Twenty-nine people were in the four-storey building in the southern city of Belo Horizonte when it collapsed in the early hours of Thursday morning. As well as the elderly care home, the building housed apartments and a beauty clinic. They included teams from Juiz de Fora, a city in the same state of Minas Gerais where landslides caused by torrential rains left 65 dead last week.

Source: Standard Digital March 07, 2026 01:25 UTC