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One year on, Brazilian city haunted by deadly dam collapse

by Associated Press
| January 26, 2020 12:05 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like she has so many other nights, Ana María Gomes is awakened by the cries of her husband and tries to calm him as he shouts for help from his mine coworkers. She convinces him the dam collapse that devastated their city of Brumadinho and killed at least 270 people happened a year ago.

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