Hopes were fading Saturday that rescuers would find more survivors from at least 300 missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil, with nine bodies so far recovered. “Where are our relatives?” wailed Raquel Cristina, one of several people demanding information about their missing kin in the mud-hit area. Up to 150 of those missing worked in the company’s administrative offices which were closest to the dam break, the firefighters said. The disaster recalled trauma from the 2015 dam break near Mariana, in Minas Gerais. The Brazil office of Greenpeace, the environmental activist group, said Friday’s dam break was “a sad consequence of the lessons not learned by the Brazilian government and the mining companies”.

Source: Egypt Independent January 26, 2019 12:33 UTC