Police kill man who held bus passengers hostage in Brazil
August 20, 2019 / 12:10 PM / AP
An armed man on Tuesday took dozens of hostages on a bus in Brazil and threatened to set the vehicle on fire with gasoline before police shot him dead in a four-hour standoff broadcast live on television. All of the hostages were freed unharmed in the confrontation, which unfolded on an 8-mile-long bridge linking Rio de Janeiro to the Niteroi municipality across Guanabara Bay.
The seized bus was coming from Sao Gonçalo, a community struggling with poverty and violence. Many people use the bridge to travel to and from work in Rio, and hundreds of vehicles were backed up as police closed lanes and tried to get control of the dangerous situation.
The man, holding a gun and a knife, took 37 people hostage on the bus at around 5:30 a.m., as commuter traffic was increasing. He released two hostages, then another two, and then two more, separately. Later, he stepped out of the bus, threw an object resembling a bag and was shot by a sniper.
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See video here:
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1163789463773962241There isn't a lot to see here, he stepped out of the bus and then, you see him go down on his knees which must be when the sniper shot him. He was threatening to cause a lot of trouble. I'm glad the passengers were safe and none of them hurt from what I know.
