A police sniper in Rio de Janeiro has shot dead a man who had hijacked a bus on a bridge across Guanabara Bay and taken 37 people hostage. 9News
A police sniper in Rio de Janeiro has shot dead a man who had hijacked a bus on a bridge across Guanabara Bay and taken 37 people hostage.
About four hours later, the hostage-taker walked out of the bus, flung a backpack towards police and then fell to the ground as he tried to re-enter the vehicle, TV images showed. Police officials said he was shot by a police sniper. Police did not provide more details on the hostage-taker. In a news conference later, Rio de Janeiro state Governor Wilson Witzel said there was a strong smell of petrol in the bus and that the hijacker had a lighter in his hand.
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