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Brazil to sign compensation deal with miners over 2015 disaster on Friday

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Brazil authorities will sign on Friday a long-awaited reparation deal with miners Vale, BHP and Samarco over the 2015 Mariana dam collapse, the country’s presidential office said on Wednesday.

The agreement will be signed in a ceremony attended by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at 9 a.m. local time (1200 GMT) on Oct. 25, Lula’s office said.

(By Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by Chris Reese)

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