This October 21 marked 1,000 days since a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão mine collapsed in the southeastern Brazilian town of Brumadinho, killing 270 people. Families of the victims gathered on the date to pay homage to their lost loved ones, but some have yet to experience any sort of closure after the deadly incident.
Over two and a half years on, firefighters are still searching for eight missing bodies — and the Brumadinho families are tirelessly working to make sure the operation continues. Despite the large amount of time elapsed since the disaster, search teams have still produced results.
In August, they recovered the body of Juliana Cerizimar de Resende Silva, who worked as an operational analyst at Brazil’s major mining firm Vale — which owned the dam that collapsed on January 25, 2019. Juliana’s husband Dennis Augusto also died in the collapse, leaving their twin sons orphaned.
And the most recent discovery came as recently as October 6, when firefighters identified the body of nursing technician Angelita Cristiane Freitas de Assis, who worked in Vale’s occupational medicine department.
Since the collapse, more than 4,100 Minas Gerais state firefighters have worked on the Brumadinho search operation — 70 percent of the entire corporation. Each week,...
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