Brazil dam burst death toll rises

4th February 2019 By: Reuters

SAO PAULO – The death toll from a dam burst in the Brazilian town of Brumadinho rose to 115 people on Friday, according to the team tasked with recovering bodies from the site.

The rescue and recovery team said that 248 people were now listed as missing, a number that grew by ten after miner Vale, which owned the dam, identified additional workers as unaccounted for.