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Court blow for Fundao dam victims

LAWYERS for victims of the Fundao Dam disaster in Mariana, Brazil have vowed to appeal a decision by the High Court of Manchester to throw out a $5 billion lawsuit against miner BHP.

Victims of the Fundao dam have been handed a legal setback.

Victims of the Fundao dam have been handed a legal setback.

The court refused to accept jurisdiction for the 2015 disaster that killed 19 people, destroyed communities and contaminated hundreds of kilometres of waterways to the Atlantic Ocean. The disaster occurred...

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