Police haven’t launched the identification of the gunman or his motives.
Rio de Janeiro:
A gunman who shot and wounded two folks and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday on the primary bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives after negotiations, Brazilian police stated.
“The hostage-taker surrendered, he was arrested, all of the hostages had been launched, they’re protected,” stated Colonel Marco Andrade of the army police.
Earlier, police stated brokers from the elite Particular Operations Battalion (BOPE) unit had been “conducting negotiations on web site” after “a person shot two folks and took hostages on a bus on the Novo Rio bus station.”
The wounded had been taken to hospital.
In whole, 17 folks had been held, together with kids and aged, Andrade instructed reporters outdoors the station. He stated one individual had been shot 3 times, whereas one other had lesser accidents.
Police haven’t launched the identification of the gunman or his motives.
– ‘Everyone seems to be determined’ –
Photos broadcast by the Globonews channel confirmed chaos on the station within the heart of Rio, the place buses depart for all areas of Brazil, with police deployed across the space.
“A person drew a gun, began taking pictures and entered the bus. I’ve two associates on this bus, everyone seems to be determined, we do not know what is going to occur,” a witness instructed the broadcaster.
Tv footage confirmed a blue bus stopped in the course of an empty parking zone.
The terminal was closed in spite of everything passengers and workers had been evacuated, AFP witnessed.
In 2000, a hostage scenario on a bus in a residential space of Rio left two folks useless.
The incident saved the nation rapt because it was broadcast reside on tv for hours, and impressed the 2008 film “Final Cease 174.”
In 2019, a hijacker armed with what turned out to be a pretend gun was shot and killed by police in Rio after 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 most iconic metropolis, Rio de Janeiro has lengthy been suffering from excessive crime charges linked to poverty and inequality.
Rio’s sprawling favelas, which crowd the metropolitan space’s hillsides, typically overlooking picture-postcard seashores and luxurious mountains, are the epicenter of gang and drug-related violence.
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