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Rescuers carry a body found on January 27, 2019, after the rupture of a dam at Brumadinho. REUTERS / Adriano Machado

The small town of Brumadinho, in southeastern Brazil, is still in shock three days after the dam broke. The latest still provisional assessment released this Sunday evening by the Brazilian authorities is 58 dead, of which only 19 have been identified, and 305 missing. There are 192 survivors. The inhabitants are traumatized.

With our special correspondent in Brumadinho, Martin Bernard

The searches of the victims were relaunched this Sunday, January 27 in the afternoon. They had been suspended due to the risk of breaking another dam . A false alarm. But Friday, before the disaster , no alarm had sounded. The families of the disappeared continue to flock to a help desk where they can request information and meet psychologists.

Elcilain lost his 17-year-old niece, who had just started an internship at an inn completely buried by the torrent of mud. " We feel completely destroyed, says the young woman. In the whole city, everyone knows someone, a loved one who has been reached. In neighborhoods we see people in tears everywhere. We can not believe it yet. "

Edimar worked for a long time at the mine until last year. " I worked directly on this dam and never could have imagined that something like that could happen, " he says. Many of his former colleagues perished. At Brumadinho, everyone expresses their pain, with the certainty that nothing will ever be the same again.

  • Breaking out of the Vale Group mining dam in Brumadinho, a municipality of 39,000 inhabitants located 60 km southwest of Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais, on January 25, 2019.
    REUTERS / Washington Alves

  • Firefighters search for survivors after the rupture of a mining dam belonging to Vale, Brumadinho, January 25, 2019.
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  • Residents of the community of Parque das Cachoeiras are attending a rescue mission in the muddy area after the break-up of mining giant Vale's dam on January 25, 2019.
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  • The debris of a house after the Brumadinho disaster in Brazil on January 27, 2019.
    REUTERS / Adriano Machado

  • A rescuer releases birds from a cage after the rutpure of the Brumadinho mining dam in Brazil on January 27, 2019.
    REUTERS / Adriano Machado

  • A helicopter flies over the area of ​​the disaster after the break-up of the Brumadinho mining dam in Brazil on 27 January 2019.
    REUTERS / Adriano Machado

  • A satellite image of the Brumadinho mining dam in Brazil before its rupture.
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  • A satellite image of the Brumadinho mining dam in Brazil after its rupture.
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  • A rescue team transports a body found at the scene of the Brumadinho disaster in Brazil on January 27, 2019.
    REUTERS / Adriano Machado