he tragedy unfolded quietly, almost inconspicuously, on a Tuesday night along BR-251, a long and often isolated highway that cuts through the rural expanses of Grão Mogol in northern Minas Gerais. What should have been a routine return trip for a group of hardworking individuals instead became one of the deadliest accidents the region had experienced in recent memory. By the time emergency crews had finished their painstaking work, nine people had lost their lives, and another twelve were clinging to life, their fates uncertain.
