Gunman Arrested Next Taking Passengers Hostage On Bus In Brazil: Police officers
Police have no longer excepted the id of the gunman or his motives.
Rio de Janeiro:
A gunman who shot and wounded two society and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday on the primary bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives next negotiations, Brazilian police stated.
“The hostage-taker surrendered, he was arrested, all the hostages were released, they are safe,” stated Colonel Marco Andrade of the army police.
Previous, police stated brokers from the elite Particular Operations Battalion (BOPE) unit have been “conducting negotiations on site” next “a man shot two people and took hostages on a bus at the Novo Rio bus station.”
The wounded have been taken to health center.
In overall, 17 society have been held, together with youngsters and aged, Andrade instructed newshounds outdoor the station. He stated one particular person were shot 3 times, day every other had lesser accidents.
Police have no longer excepted the id of the gunman or his motives.
– ‘Everyone seems to be determined’ –
Photographs broadcast by means of the Globonews channel confirmed chaos on the station within the middle of Rio, the place buses let fall for all areas of Brazil, with police deployed across the department.
“A man drew a gun, started shooting and entered the bus. I have two friends on this bus, everyone is desperate, we don’t know what will happen,” a observer instructed the broadcaster.
Tv pictures confirmed a blue bus prevented in the course of an deserted parking bundle.
The terminal was once closed next all passengers and workers have been evacuated, AFP witnessed.
In 2000, a hostage status on a bus in a residential department of Rio left two society useless.
The incident stored the people rapt because it was once broadcast survive tv for hours, and impressed the 2008 film “Last Stop 174.”
In 2019, a hijacker armed with what grew to become out to be a faux gun was once shot and killed by means of police in Rio next he held a busload of passengers hostage for a number of hours on a significant bridge linking town to the city of Niteroi.
Brazil’s maximum iconic town, Rio de Janeiro has lengthy been plagued by means of top crime charges related to poverty and inequality.
Rio’s sprawling favelas, which people the metropolitan department’s hillsides, frequently overlooking picture-postcard seashores and plush mountains, are the epicenter of gang and drug-related violence.
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