巴西潰壩事故遇難者升至60人

Rescue workers confirmed on Monday that at least 60 people are dead after a dam collapsed in Minas Gerais state in Brazil.

營救人員本週一證實，巴西米納斯吉拉斯州的一座大壩崩塌，已造成至少六十人死亡。

Officials say at least 300 other people remain missing.

官方宣佈，至少有300多人失蹤。

The dam, owned by Brazil's Vale mining company, collapsed last Friday in the town of Brumadinho. Water and mud swept over hundreds of mine workers as they were taking a lunch break.

這一歸巴西淡水河谷礦業公司所有的大壩，上週五在布魯馬迪紐鎮崩塌。數百名礦工午休時被洪水和泥巴沖走。

Search efforts continued on Monday. Rescue workers used long pieces of wood to cross mud-covered areas to search for bodies inside of a bus.

搜尋工作週一仍在繼續。救援人員用長木條穿過泥濘的地區，在一輛巴士內搜尋屍體。

Villagers discovered the bus as they tried to rescue a nearby cow that was stuck in the mud.

當地村民是在試圖營救一頭困在泥裏的附近的奶牛時發現的這輛公共汽車。

Brazil's top prosecutor, Raquel Dodge, said Vale should be held responsible and criminally prosecuted. She added that executives working there could also be personally held responsible.

巴西最高檢察官拉克爾·道奇表示，淡水河谷公司應該對此負責，並應受到刑事起訴。她還表示，該公司的高管也可能要爲自己的行爲負責。

Reaction to the disaster could threaten the plans of new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. He wants to reduce restrictions on the mining industry, and has proposed opening up indigenous land areas and parts of the Amazon rain forest for mining.

這次災難的影響可能會威脅到巴西新總統雅伊爾·博索納羅的計劃。他希望減少對採礦業的限制，並提議開放原住民土地和亞馬遜雨林的部分地區用於採礦。