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Camargos District, Mariana (MG), 09/11/2015 - Countryside region devastated by the mud from Samarco's Fundão tailings dam

TRAGEDY IN MINAS GERAIS

Series of reports for Vice Brasil covering the days following the breaking of Fundão tailings dam, owned by Samarco mining company, which launched into nature 62 billion liters of contaminated mud, causing the death of 19 people in the district of Bento Rodrigues, razing neighboring districts, as Camargos and Paracatu de Baixo, and polluting Doce river until its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean, at the state of Espirito Santo. One year later, returned for a new series of reports for Vice.

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