Death toll in Brazil dam disaster reaches 9, some 300 missing: Firefighters

Death toll in Brazil dam disaster reaches 9, some 300 missing: Firefighters
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The toll in a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil rose to nine dead and some 300 missing, local firefighters said early Saturday, doubling the number of missing people. The earlier toll after a torrent of mud broke through the disused dam Friday at the iron-ore mine owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale in Minas Gerias state was seven dead and 150 missing.

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