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Brazil dam collapse: five arrested including three mining firm staff
Source: The Guardian
Brazil dam collapse: five arrested including three mining firm staff
Three employees of Vale and two subcontracted engineers held over Brumadinho disaster
Dom Phillips in Brumadinho
Tue 29 Jan 2019 11.15 GMT
Brazilian police have arrested five people in an investigation into the causes of the Brumadinho dam disaster.
The dam break last Friday at an iron ore mining complex operated by the minerals firm Vale killed at least 65 people, and a further 279 are missing.
Federal and state prosecutors said 30-day arrest warrants had been issued “aiming to establish criminal responsibility for the rupture of dams at the Córrego de Feijão mine maintained by Vale”.
Arrests were carried out in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte on Tuesday morning, prosecutors said. Searches were carried out at a Vale building in Nova Lima and a subcontracted company in São Paulo that provided services and consultancy to Vale.
“Three Vale employees directly employed and responsible were arrested. In addition, subcontracted engineers who recently attested to the stability of the dam were arrested,” the prosecutors said.
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Three employees of Vale and two subcontracted engineers held over Brumadinho disaster
Dom Phillips in Brumadinho
Tue 29 Jan 2019 11.15 GMT
Brazilian police have arrested five people in an investigation into the causes of the Brumadinho dam disaster.
The dam break last Friday at an iron ore mining complex operated by the minerals firm Vale killed at least 65 people, and a further 279 are missing.
Federal and state prosecutors said 30-day arrest warrants had been issued “aiming to establish criminal responsibility for the rupture of dams at the Córrego de Feijão mine maintained by Vale”.
Arrests were carried out in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte on Tuesday morning, prosecutors said. Searches were carried out at a Vale building in Nova Lima and a subcontracted company in São Paulo that provided services and consultancy to Vale.
“Three Vale employees directly employed and responsible were arrested. In addition, subcontracted engineers who recently attested to the stability of the dam were arrested,” the prosecutors said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/29/brazil-dam-collapse-brumadinho-five-arrested-including-three-mining-firm-staff
