Dozens missing BHP-Vale mine disaster in Brazil as rescue continues

Guardian: Rescue teams searched through mud and debris on Friday for dozens of people missing after a pair of dams collapsed at a Brazilian mine owned by two of the world’s biggest iron ore producers. Walls of water filled with mining waste cascaded downhill when the dams burst on Thursday, engulfing a nearby village in a sea of mud and flooding others far removed from the open-pit Samarco mine jointly owned by BHP Billiton and Vale. “I heard screaming and saw the water coming fast, about 15 to 20 metres......

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