Ten people died when a cliff collapsed onto tourist boats on a lake in Brazil, officials said Sunday after the bodies of two missing people were found. On Saturday a large rock fragment broke free of a ravine and plunged onto four boats in Furnas Lake in Brazil's eastern Minas Gerais state, as panicked tourists watched helplessly from other vessels. Dramatic videos shared on social networks captured the moment the cliff collapsed. The bodies of the two remaining missing individuals were found Sunday by rescuers, civil police commissioner Marcos de Souza Pimenta told reporters. The death toll Saturday was originally given as seven, with three people missing.
The 10 who died were part of a group of family and friends on the boat that suffered the biggest impact from the rockfall, according to rescuers. The victims were all Brazilian nationals, aged between 14 and 68, according to preliminary investigations. WATCH MORETennis star Novak Djokovic wins legal battlein AustraliaTourists flock to see the cliffs, caverns and waterfalls that surround the green waters of Lake Furnas, formed by the hydroelectric dam of the same name. One video, shared on social media, showed the minute before the incident, with several people warning that "lots of stones are falling" and yelling at the occupants of other boats to move away from the rock face. President Jair Bolsonaro retweeted some of these videos on his account, and said that "as soon as the unfortunate disaster occurred, the Brazilian Navy moved to the site to rescue victims and transport the injured."
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