Hotel Providence - new home for dispossessed in Brazil mining flood


  • World
  • Tuesday, 10 Nov 2015

A chicken walks on debris in Bento Rodrigues district after a dam, owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst, in Mariana, Brazil, November 9, 2015. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

MARIANA, Brazil (Reuters) - For those that lost everything in the deadly flood caused by two breached dams at a mine in Brazil, this former convent boarding school in the old centre of Mariana is now home.

The 19th century blue and white hotel with a statue of the Virgin Mary above the door, bustles with activity as children chase each other down the long corridors seemingly unaware of the psychologists attending to the grief stricken.

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