Ten years after Brazil mine disaster, pollution persists

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London - Nearly 10 years after the breakup of a mining dam in Brazil, which killed 19 people and caused an ecological disaster, the still polluted soils and water poison the lives of the residents, tells AFP a customary chief on the sidelines of a repair procedure in London. On 5 November 2015, the rupture of the mining dam at Fundao, near the city of Mariana, in the state of Minas Gerais (southeast), had led to a gigantic flow of toxic waste mu…