a cliff collapses on tourists, eight dead and thirty wounded

In Brazil, a section of a suspended cliff broke away and in a few seconds engulfed a tourist boat, Saturday, January 8. A few minutes earlier, on Lake Furnas (Brazil), tourists admire the waterfalls. When suddenly, a first landslide worries. A boat pulls away, while others seem unaware of the danger. He will be hit by the blast. The toll is heavy: eight dead, thirty wounded, and two missing.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, the search for the bodies continued in the lake. “We carry out our research work on the surface of the water, but also in the water with divers”, announced Colonel Edgar Estevo de Silva, of the State Rescue Service of Minas Gerais. An alert to heavy rains, recommending to avoid waterfalls, had been issued by the authorities.