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MARIANA, Brazil (AP) — Searchers in Brazil are using small airplanes and a drone to look for 19 people confirmed as missing following the burst of two dams inside an iron ore mine.
Officials say 13 mine workers are missing, along with six residents of a nearby village that was overrun with mud and water. That number is down from earlier today, when 23 people had been listed as missing.
Authorities also lowered the official death count to one. The Fire Department says officials are not sure that a body found more than 60 miles from the site of the accident was a victim.
The flood of mud came without warning Thursday afternoon when two dams breached for reasons that investigators had not yet determined.
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