Death toll in Brazil mine disaster rises to 110
21:29, 1 February 2019
SAO PAOLO. KAZINFORM - The number of confirmed fatalities following last week's failure of a mine tailings dam in the southeastern Brazilian town of Brumadinho reached 110 on Thursday, the Minas Gerais state fire department said, EFE reports.
Seven days after the catastrophe, the search operation is entering "a somewhat more difficult phase," the department spokesman, Lt. Pedro Aihara, told a press conference.