TEHRAN, Apr 16 - Federal police are serving five search warrants in connection with a Brazilian investigation into a deadly tailings dam failure at a mining site operated by Vale SA, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Apr 08 - The governor of Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan said a major dam on the Karkhe river has overflown and local residents in a number of cities and villages, including Soosangerd, have been ordered to leave their homes.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 - Brazil's government on Monday banned new upstream mining dams and ordered the decommissioning of all such dams by 2021, targeting the type of structure that burst last month in the town of Brumadinho, killing hundreds of people.
TEHRAN, Feb 17 - Around 200 residents were evacuated from an area near a tailings dam in Brazil operated by Vale SA late on Saturday, amid fears that it was structurally weak and could burst like a similar barrier failure last month that killed 300 people.
TEHRAN, Feb 08 - Brazil's Vale SA has evacuated around 500 people from a dam area in the Gongo Soco mine in the state of Minas Gerais as a preventive measure, the mining company said in a statement on Friday.
TEHRAN, Jan 30 - The death toll from Brazil's collapsed mining dam climbed to 58, with 305 people still missing in southeast Brazil's state of Minas Gerais, said local authorities.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - Three employees of Brazilian miner Vale SA and two other engineers working on behalf of the company were arrested on Tuesday, state prosecutors said, deepening a crisis for the company after another deadly disaster at one of its mines.
TEHRAN, Jan 27 - Brazilian rescue workers halted searches for the night on Saturday for hundreds of people missing and feared dead under a sea of mud after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, killing at least 34 people.
TEHRAN, August 30 - As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, July 29 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi extended condolences to the nation and governmnet of Laos over dam collapse which left hundreds killed and missing.
TEHRAN, July 25 - More than forty people died after a dam collapsed in Laos, sweeping several houses and causing damage, volunteers reported on social media.
TEHRAN, July 25 - Nineteen people have been confirmed dead and more than 3,000 need to be rescued after a dam collapsed in a remote part of land-locked Laos, local media reported on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, July 24 - Hundreds of people are missing and several are feared dead after a hydropower dam under construction in Laos collapsed, causing flash flooding which swept away homes, state media reported on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, May 10 - A dam burst in Kenya after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a torrent of water that smashed into two villages killing at least 21 people and causing "huge destruction", rescue services and government officials said.
Tehran, YJC. Iran's minister of energy has said that due to scanty preciptitaion this year the country's water reservoirs behind dams has lessened 3.4 percent.