Dozens of gunmen armed with assault rifles invaded a city in southern Brazil overnight and took control of the streets as they looted a local bank, authorities said Tuesday.
The gunmen traded gunfire with officers in the city center and at a police station, Santa Catarina’s military police agency said on its official Twitter account. Two people were wounded in the firefight: a security guard and a police officer, who was shot in the abdomen and remained hospitalized in serious condition Tuesday.“It was an unprecedented action for the state. There was never anything with this scope, this violence,” Cruz said in a separate interview with Globo.
Through a window of his home, Damasio said he saw the men firing into the air — with each high-power shot booming like a bomb. He took shelter in a back room with his mother and remained there until the shooting stopped.Images on Globo showed a bank vault with a square-shaped hole in it and a convoy of criminals’ vehicles as they made their escape. Bills were scattered across the ground in one area of the city, and the newspaper Folha de S.
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