The largest mass lawsuit in English legal history will kick off on Monday as mining company BHP faces a multibillion-pound claim brought on behalf of about 620,000 alleged victims of one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters.
Nine years after a dam that held waste materials burst at an iron-ore mine near the town of Mariana and unleashed a wave of toxic sludge, killing 19 people, a long-awaited courtroom showdown over compensation for the devastation is due to get under way in London.
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