CORRECTED-Brazil's Vale has over $219 mln frozen by state prosecutors as compensation

CORRECTED-Brazil's Vale has over $219 mln frozen by state prosecutors as compensation

Brazil's Minas Gerais state labor prosecutors' office said on Thursday it had frozen more than 800 million reais ($219 million) of miner Vale's funds as compensation for victims of a deadly tailings dam burst.

($1 = 3.6485 reais) (Reporting by Pedro Fonseca; Editing by Christian Plumb)

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