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Search for Brazil Dam Collapse Survivors Continues
Over thirty people confirmed dead in Brazil dam disaster.
Rescue teams in Brazil are continuing their search for survivors nearly forty-eight hours after a dam collapsed in the state of Minas Gerais on Friday.Two hundred and fifty people are still missing, with thirty-four people confirmed dead.
Also in the programme: At least twenty people killed in Philippine cathedral bombing; and a Banksy artwork is stolen from France's Bataclan concert hall.
(Picture:A Minas Gerais civil police helicopter lands during a rescue mission near the town of Brumadinho in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil on 26th January 2019. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)
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