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About 200 people are missing after a dam collapsed in southeast Brazil with fears the disaster caused a number of deaths.
A statement from the fire brigade's headquarters in the city of Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais state, not far from the site of the disaster, said scores of people are trapped in areas by the river of sludge released by the dam burst.
Emergency services on Friday were still responding to the situation in and around the town of Brumadinho, which has a population 39,000, and did not yet have a toll, a local fire service official told AFP news agency.