Brazil petrochemical giant’s salt mine partially collapses

The Mutange neighborhood in Maceio, Brazil, where a mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem collapsed on Sunday (Itawi Albuquerque/AP)

A mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem ruptured and partially collapsed on Sunday in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio, the city’s civil defence authority said.

Video the authority distributed shows a sudden bubbling of the water in the Mundau lagoon in the city’s Mutange neighbourhood, caused by the mine’s rupture.