Brazil town still feels trauma of mine dam collapse five years on
Brumadinho, Brazil (AFP) Jan 24, 2024
Nathalia de Oliveira, an intern at Brazilian mining giant Vale in the town of Brumadinho, was talking on the phone with her husband when she noticed a rush of birds overhead and felt the ground shake. When the 25-year-old mother of two turned, she saw an oncoming wall of liquid mud. "God save me," she said, according to her family. Then her phone went dead. Oliveira was one of 270 pe