Brazil prosecutors sue agencies over Haidar shipwreck, environmental risk

FILE PHOTO: Dead cows are pictured on the side of livestock carrier Haidar, loaded with some 5,000 cows, after it capsized at the Vila do Conde port in Bacarena, Para state, Brazil, October 10, 2015. Thousands of cattle owned by beef producer Minerva SA are thought to have died when a boat leaving a port in northern Brazil overturned, the company and Williams Shipping Agents said on Tuesday. Minerva said in a securities filing that a ship transporting its cattle had tipped over after departing from the Vila do Conde port in Barcarena. There were no human victims, it said. Picture taken October 10, 2015. REUTERS/Paulo Santos

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian federal prosecutors in Para state have filed a lawsuit to demand the removal of the hull and oily residues from the Haidar ship, which sank 10 years ago nearVila do Conde port, Brazil's biggest for live cattle shipments.

In a statement on Wednesday, Para federal prosecutors recalled the Haidar wreck caused the death of 5,000 cattle and a spill of 700,000 liters of oily residues.