The death toll from the collapse of a Brazilian dam rose to 84 on Tuesday as mining giant Vale announced that moves to dismantle similar structures would hit production. The dam collapse at the Vale mine near the town of Brumadinho occurred three years after a similar disaster at another one of its sights in the same region. That 2015 dam rupture, near Mariana, killed 19 people and caused what was considered the worst environmental catastrophe Brazil had seen. Minas Gerais prosecutors said they have launched a probe “evaluating the criminal responsibility of the Vale company.”The five engineers arrested were part of that investigation. Three of the engineers work for Vale and were directly involved in the process of the facility’s operating licenses, the prosecutors said.

Source: Egypt Independent January 30, 2019 00:45 UTC