RIO DE JANEIRO — A gang of gunmen roared up to a bar in Belem city in Brazil’s northern Pará state and opened fire, killing six women and five men, media reports said. State officials would confirm only that “a massacre” occurred but gave no details.
The G1 news website said police reported that seven gunmen were involved in the attack, which also wounded one person. The news outlet said the attackers arrived at the bar on one motorcycle and in three cars. In late March, the federal government sent National Guard troops to Belém to reinforce security in the city for 90 days.
A Pará state spokeswoman, Natalia Mello, said only: “A massacre is confirmed.” State communications officials stopped answering phone calls. Military and civil police in Pará state also did not answer phone calls or respond to emails.
Time for tougher gun laws there 🤔
Bolsonaro allowed a law for people to buy weapons, so he's making Brazil Great Again!
That can’t be possible. Brazil has common sense gun control which we’re told eliminates crime.
Now imagine all of those people were heavily armed...
nothing new here
Time for Brazil to get Gun control 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
U.S. needs to start using the word massacre. Sandy Hook children were massacred! Say it NRA ! Vegas concert audience massacred! Church members were massacred! Say it realDonaldTrump ! Let’s stop using sanitized language & call it what it really was!
But they have strict gun laws. How could this have happened?
Very sad...
you couldnt pay me enough to go to brazil. and even if you did, i want a seal team to guard me during my trip. seen enough favela shootings/torture to last a life time. i dont want to be part of that lol
They are trying to out u.s the u.s
Was there any undercover cops there?
Doesn’t lessen the shock but this would be normal for a WeekendInChicago
iamharoldlowejr
This is terrible. Very informative how gun laws don't work, however: Law abiding folks are not allowed self-defense in Brazil.
Look at how good that gun control is working.
My God. PrayForBrazil
What it looks like walking through Rio
Aren't guns illegal in brazil
Oops, mass killings are only supposed to be in the US! Well, that’s what the anti gun clowns say. Hate knows no borders. There has never been a gun that shot anyone because it got mad, had an argument, or had a human load it and point it.
Makes no sense. Is this a terrorist group?
Happens
People saying another 'day in America' r off their asses. Show me on instant in America in the last 4-5 days maybe more saying there was something similar. Pure BS. GO LIVE IN BRAZIL see the freekn difference. USA isn't overrun by outlaws.
More guns doesn’t mean more peace. If that were the case, Middle East would've been the safest place to live
So what? It's just another normal day in Brazil. Remember these people beheaded a soccer referee over a foul.
JFC
The new president loosen the strict gun laws now what you expect?
hasanminhaj was just talking about Brazil’s gun laws and this happens. 😕
Damn!! The devil is on the loose! RIP Brazilshooting
They call this a massacre we call it just another day.
This will happen more and more often as easy access to guns is opened up in Brazil courtesy of their new extreme right president and the market will be flooded with legal guns which are the feeder into the illegal gun market
But it only happens in America😂
hasanminhaj patriotact
Horrible news. Prayers to the victims & their families.
My great grandfather was from Brazil... extending my deepest sorrowful condolences....💔💔🙏🙏
That what criminals do, they kill innocents. Criminals will always kill.
rmtakata VieiraMarilia
The new Brazilian president is eccentric and is losing it.
Probably bolsonaro supporters.
11 people killed by gunmen in Brazil, local police describe a 'massacre' . In America, it's just another day at school.
But I thought easing regulations on guns was supposed to prevent this
We should start calling our mass shootings massacres. Only we have them twice a week in the United States.
Mercy Brazil
Ask SF_Moro, the Bolsonaro's super-minister of justice and public security about details, he must know.
Isn’t that like a regular Tuesday in South America?
AsmToddGloria toniatkins NAACP SanDiegoDDAs SDPDHonorOne CALFIRESANDIEGO
Credit SchillisanASS_
Where in the north?
Brazil has some great food, people, and landscape. The bad ones will never win. Brazil will overcome this.
The ‘North’!
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