RIO DE JANEIRO At least eight tourists were killed on a lake in southeastern Brazil when a rock face collapsed and struck their boat, local authorities said on Sunday.
Police have identified the first body, officials said at a news conference. The person was a 68-year-old man from the municipality
(Anadolu photo) BUENOS AIRES - The death toll in southeastern Brazil, where a canyon wall collapsed on speedboats in a lake, rose to 10 on Sunday, according to local authorities. The Minas Gerais Fire Department, in a statement, said the bodies of two more people who were missing were found. Officials also said that search and rescue efforts were ended. The slab of rock that broke off from a cliff into Lago de Furnas, near the city of Capitolio, hit four boats and sank two on Saturday, with footage of the incident going viral on social media. Fire department spokesman Pedro Aihara told the local television channel EPTV that some who had been missing were located after contacting state hospitals. Many of the victims were hospitalized and 20 were listed missing because there was no cross-listing, added Aihara. The rockslide occurred "due to heavy rains, which caused the loosening of a wall of stones in Lago de Furnas, in Capitolio," Minas Governor Romeu Zema had said on Twitter
A towering slab of rock broke from a cliff and toppled onto pleasure boaters drifting near a waterfall on a Brazilian lake on Saturday and officials said a
ANKARA/BUENOS AIRES (Jan 9): At least six people were killed Saturday (Jan 8) in southeastern Brazil when a canyon wall collapsed on speedboats in a lake, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported according to media reports. The rockslide in Lago de Furnas near the city of Capitolio hit four boats and two sank, said local sources, while footage of the incident went viral on social media.