FILE PHOTO: A view of the Samarco mine, owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd, in Mariana, Brazil, April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Washington Alves/File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) - A Brazilian mayor, part of a 200,000-strong group claim against miner BHP over a 2015 burst dam, has told an English court that suing the Anglo-Australian giant in Brazil would be like David fighting Goliath - without the biblical ending.
Mario Antonio Coelho, mayor of Brazil's Barra Longa municipality, has told a jurisdictional hearing in Manchester that bringing the 5 billion pound ($6.3 billion) case in England over Brazil's worst environmental disaster is the only route to proper justice, court documents show.
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