Wengen, Switzerland | Mathieu Dupuis
Last Thursday, 60 million cubic meters of waste water from a iron ore mine in southern Brazil inundated the village of Bento Rodrigues and several other towns downstream. The villagers had 25 minutes to evacuate before their homes were torn apart by an 8-foot-tall wave of mud.
Images:
- A bicycle leans against a wall in Barra Longo, another town affected by the flood. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images)
- Footage from a Portuguese language news report. (YouTube)
- The Samarco mine sits in the shadow of the Caraça ridge, just uphill from Bento Rodrigues (Google Maps)
- A hen walks on a cable in Bento Rodrigues (former population: 600), three days after an avalanche of mud and mining sludge buried the town. 13 people are presumed dead, 15 more are still missing. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images)
- A fireman rescues a dog in Paracuta de Baixo, another one of the villages hit by the wave of muck. (Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images)
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