Technology is supporting Brazilian authorities in their search for survivors of the worst environmental disaster in the country’s history.
Following the collapse of a dam operated by mining company Vale on Friday (25), hundreds of people including the firm’s employees, contractors and local residents are unaccounted for and the death toll is nearing 60.
As one dam containing iron ore waste failed and another overflowed in the town of Brumadinho in the state of Minas Gerais, the government’s Attorney General secured authorization for requests to mobile phone operators about devices located in the mine at the time the occurrence took place.