Brazil prosecutors charge 16 people with murder in dam collapse that killed 270
by Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from Environment | The Guardian on (#4Y7ZA)
- Former CEO of mining giant Vale among those charged
- Vale 'acted directly to create false impression of safety in dams'
Brazilian prosecutors have charged 16 people - including the former CEO of mining giant Vale - with murder and environmental crimes over the collapse of a tailings dam which killed 270 people on 25 January 2019.
The charges were announced by state prosecutors in Minas Gerais days before the first anniversary of the disaster, which sent a torrent of liquid mining waste across the picturesque countryside, flattening Vale's plant, offices and canteen, and killing guests at a nearby countryside guesthouse.
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