Tailings Dam Collapse in Brumadinho: Two Engineers Arrested

"Três funcionários da Vale diretamente envolvidos e responsáveis pelo licenciamento da barragem que se rompeu em Brumadinho e dois engenheiros terceirizados que atestaram a estabilidade ..." Three Vale officers and two engineers responsible for the stability permit of the dam..." were jailed today. The operation was carried out by the Ministério Público de Minas Gerais (MPMG), the Ministério Público Federal (MPF) and the Polícia Federal (PF) as well as the Promotoria de Justiça da Comarca de Brumadinho, a Coordenadoria das Promotorias de Justiça de Defesa das Bacias dos Rios da Velha e Paraopeba, o Grupo de Atuação Especial de Combate ao Crime Organizado (Gaeco), e Grupo Especial de Promotores de Justiça de Defesa do Patrimônio Público (GEPP). GAECO is the special group to combat organized crime. 

Poor engineers.

The mayor of the state capital Belo Horizonte, Alexandre Kalil, said "Vale's board of directors should be in jail". The comments came after state prosecutors said they had frozen a total of 11bn reais ($2.9bn; £2.2bn) of assets belonging to Vale.

Access to the areas is difficult - in some places, the mud is up to 15m (49ft) deep. An Israeli group of engineers, doctors and members of the navy's underwater missions unit has joined the efforts.