Emergency teams from Ibama assess the Tocantins River after loads of acid and pesticides fell with the collapse of the bridge on BR-226, on the border between Tocantins (TO) and Maranhão (MA).
According to the president of the institute, Rodrigo Agostinho, technicians from the center for preventing and responding to environmental and climate accidents (Nupaem) are on site.
The search for the missing after information that trucks with toxic products fell from the bridge.
In total, there are two tanks with a capacity of 79 tons of sulfuric acid and a truck with 22 thousand liters of pesticides.
The two sulfuric acid tanks have already been located and inspected by divers, who did not identify a leak. There is still no information about the pesticide load.
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The Minister of Transport, Renan Filho, stated this Monday (23) that the for the reconstruction of the .
Renan declared a state of emergency after inspecting the area that fell and left at least one confirmed dead and 15 missing. According to the minister, the aim is to shorten administrative procedures, for rapid reconstruction.
“I want to communicate to the Brazilian people who need this infrastructure to travel, both from an economic and social point of view, that we will, with the emergency declared, contract the reconstruction of the bridge in 2024,” he said.
“In addition to the contract this year, we hope to give a work order in the first days of 2025 for all the engineering works that will be carried out here, with the commitment to deliver this bridge in 2025. We will work dedicatedly to make this new bridge a case of resolution. ”, added the minister.
