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Scores missing as deadly mudslide flattens Brazil village, bursts dams
Firefighters rescued 500 survivors Friday from a torrent of mining waste that killed at least 17 people and destroyed a village after two dams burst in southeastern Brazil. They searched frantically for survivors after the mudslide erupted Thursday from waste reservoirs at the partly Australian-owned iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil. The torrent ripped the roofs off houses and left villagers clinging to their roofs. "There was a horrible noise and we saw the mud approaching. We ran for it. It is a miracle that we are still alive," said Valeria de Souza, 20, with a baby in her arms and tears in her eyes. The mudslide flattened Bento Rodrigues, a village of some 600 people near the southeastern city of Mariana in the historic mining region of Minas Gerais. De Souza spoke to AFP after arriving at a gymnasium in Mariana, where some 150 survivors from the destroyed village were being housed. A general view where a dam burst in the village of Bento Rodrigues, in Mariana, the southeastern Bra … There were 17 people officially confirmed killed and 50 injured, "but more bodies have been found," said Adao Severino Junior, the fire chief in Mariana...
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