Television images showed part of a passenger bus crushed under the overpass and news website G1 said another two trucks and a vehicle were also smashed.
A fire department spokesman said there was still at least one person trapped in a car.
The accident site is around three kilometres from the Mineirao stadium, where a World Cup semi-final match will be held next Wednesday (AEST). The stadium has already hosted five games.
Two people died and 19 were injured, a spokeswoman for the Minas Gerais state health department said.
The cause of the collapse was unclear. The overpass was part of a network of bus lanes that Brazil planned to have ready for the World Cup but was not finished in time.
A woman on a bus at the moment of the accident told GloboNews TV she thought more people were under the debris.
“We were traveling normally and then there was a terrible noise,” Renata Soares said.
“I am sure that more people in other cars were underneath the debris.”The bridge was to be used for passenger buses in a system known as BRT/Move, considered a legacy project from the World Cup.
Heavy government spending on the World Cup and long delays in finishing promised infrastructure projects have spurred violent street protests in Brazil over the past year, although they have died down in recent weeks.
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