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BHP faces a $9b lawsuit over Samarco dam collapse in Brazil, reports say

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BHP faces a £5 billion ($9 billion) lawsuit over the failure of the Samarco dam in Brazil in November 2015 that killed 19 people, The Telegraph has reported.

The claim, one of the largest in British legal history, "is being brought for damages on behalf of 240,000 individuals who were victims of the disaster", the newspaper reported on its website.

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Will Willitts was a desk editor at The Australian Financial Review.
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