Rotta, L.H.S., Alcantara, E., Park, E., Negri, R.G., Lind, Y.N., Bernardo, N., Mendes, T.S.G.S. and Souza Filho, C.R. (2020) The 2019 Brumadinho Tailings Dam Collapse: Possible Cause and Impacts of the Worst Human and Environmental Disaster in Brazil. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 90, 102119.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2020.102119

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Challenges in Implementing DVI Best Practice Guidelines Due to the Brumadinho Disaster

  AUTHORS: Reinaldo Moreira Silva, Bruno Diniz Sander Morais, Carlos Danilo Ruas Silva, Elza Cristina Lopes de Oliveira, Fernando Pereira Macedo, Giovanni Vitral Pinto, Guadalupe Dell’Arret Coutinho, Higgor Gonçalves Dornelas, João Luiz Silva Moreira, Laila Evangelista de Almeida Fernandes, Marcia Lobão Iannini, Patrícia Siqueira, Valéria Rosalina Dias e Santos, Sordaini Maria Caligiorne

  KEYWORDS: Disaster, Victim, Identification, DNA, Brumadinho

  JOURNAL NAME: Forensic Medicine and Anatomy Research, Vol.12 No.1, January 15, 2024

  ABSTRACT: The broke of a tailings dam from Vale S.A. destroyed a gigantic area killing 270 persons in Brumadinho/Brazil. Organizing activities after a mass disaster is a complex process that requires the involvement of many people and resources in the laboratory. To DNA identification of the victims, a daunting work had to be made by DNA laboratory staff in a collaborative effort with many partners. Efforts to implement good practice guidelines in Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) have revealed several important aspects that need to change in the forensic DNA laboratory. This article highlights the challenges of implementing DVI best practice guidelines in resource-poor settings, but with professionals from different sectors engaged in the same goal of briefly identifying victims and helping families and society.