BRASILIA (Reuters) – Ten folks died within the dramatic collapse of a canyon rock face on prime of motor boats visiting a waterfall in southeastern Brazil, rescuers mentioned on Sunday.
A tower of rocks abruptly broke away from the canyon wall on Saturday and got here crashing down, crushing one of many leisure boats at Capitolio in Minas Gerais state. Shocking video pictures circulated on social media.
Firemen and divers recovered three extra our bodies from the lake on Sunday, elevating the demise toll to 10 within the catastrophe that injured some 30 vacationers hit by falling rocks and an enormous wave of water prompted when the column of rock crashed into the lake.
The area has been beneath heavy rainfall for 2 weeks, which may have loosened the rock face. On Saturday, a dike overflowed at an iron ore mine 300 kilometers to the east, slicing off a serious federal freeway.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Chris Reese)
