브라질 남동부 댐 붕괴로 300명 실종...시신 9구 발견 VIDEO; Brazil rescuers search for hundreds missing after mining dam burst

Brazil rescuers search for hundreds missing after mining dam burst

PUBLISHEDJAN 26, 2019, 12:48 AM SGTUPDATED1 HOUR AGO


BRUMADINHO, BRAZIL (REUTERS) - Brazilian rescuers continued searching on Saturday (Jan 26) for some 200 missing people after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA , just over three years after the miner was involved in a similar disaster nearby.


Brazil dam collapse: Several killed and many missing in Brumadinho - BBC News/BBC




 

브라질 남동부 댐 붕괴로 300명 매몰...시신 9구 발견


   실종자가 300여명에 이르는 것으로 추정되는 브라질 남동부 댐 붕괴 현장에서 시신 9구가 발견됐다.


AFP 등 외신에 따르면 25일(현지시간) 오후 구조대원이 7구의 시신을 발견했으며, 밤샘 작업을 통해 26일 새벽 2구의 시신을 추가로 확인했다.


사고는 25일 오전 브라질 남동부 미나스 제라이스주(州)의 주도(州都)인 벨루오리존치시 인근 브루마지뉴 지역에 있는 광산의 댐 3개가 무너지면서 일어났다.


댐이 무너지면서 쏟아진 흙더미가 인근 마을을 덮쳐 가옥 수백채가 침수됐으며, 미나스 제라이스주 소방당국은 "거의 300명이 실종됐다"고 밝혔다.


이 댐들은 브라질의 세계적인 광산개발업체 발리(Vale)가 관리하는 곳으로 지난 2015년에도 발리가 관리하는 이 지역 광산이 붕괴해 19명이 사망한 바 있다.


사고 발생 2시간 만에 뉴욕 증시에서 발리의 주가는 10% 하락했다.




미나스 제라이스 주 정부는 사고 당시 발리 광산에서 일하던 427명 중 279명이 생존했으며 나머지 사람들은 실종자 명단에 포함됐다고 밝혔다.


호메우 제마 주지사는 "생존자를 찾기 위해 모든 노력을 기울이고 있지만, 가능성은 아주 적으며 시신만 발견할 공산이 크다"고 말했다.

소방당국은 구조대원 100여명을 투입해 생존자 구조와 사고 수습에 나서고 있다.

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Seven bodies were found in the hours after the Friday dam burst, but the toll was expected to rise sharply, said Mr Avimar de Melo Barcelos, the mayor of the hard-hit town of Brumadinho in the mining-intensive state of Minas Gerais.


Vale Chief Executive Fabio Schvartsman said only one-third of the roughly 300 workers at the site had been accounted for. He said a torrent of sludge tore through the mine's offices, including a cafeteria during lunchtime.



President Jair Bolsonaro was set to visit Minas Gerais and fly over the disaster area on Saturday morning, after dispatching three ministers there on Friday.


The state is still recovering from the collapse in November 2015 of a larger dam that killed 19 people in Brazil's worst environmental disaster.


That dam, owned by the Samarco Mineracao SA joint venture between Vale and BHP Group Ltd, buried a village and poured toxic waste into a major river.


Mr Schvartsman said the dam that burst on Friday at the Feijao iron mine was being decommissioned and its capacity was about a fifth of the total waste spilled at Samarco.


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He said equipment had shown the dam was stable on Jan 10 and it was too soon to say why it collapsed.


The Feijao mine is one of four in Vale's Paraoeba complex, which includes two processing plants and produced 26 million tonnes of iron ore in 2017, or about 7 per cent of Vale's total output, according to information on the company's website.


Mr Schvartsman declined to comment on how output would be affected.




Operations at Samarco remain halted over new licensing, while the companies have worked to pay damages out of court, including an agreement that quashed a 20 billion reais (S$7.18 billion) civil lawsuit last year.


Federal prosecutors suspended but have still not closed an even larger lawsuit.

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