Hostages in a collective in Rio de Janeiro | …

An armed man abducted for more than four hours the pbadengers of a collective that was circulating in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The man threatened to set fire to the bus and the 31 people who were held captive inside the vehicle. At a time when the abductor left the vehicle with a gun on the head of one of the hostages, a military police shooter shot him and the man fell dead. Later, they confirmed that the weapon was a toy.

The episode, which began at 5:30 am, took place on the iconic Rio-Niteroï Bridge, which connects these two important cities in the metropolitan area of ​​Rio de Janeiro. The bridge traffic was completely cut off.
The federal highway police reported that the kidnapper first identified himself as a military policeman and then threatened the pbadengers with burning the bus. "We do not know the real purpose," said Sheilla Sena, spokeswoman for the force.

The militarized police were responsible for negotiating the abductor's surrender. Two hours later, the man released three women and a man, with a time interval between them, and launched an explosive device to demonstrate that he could discharge his threat of burning the bus.

The vehicle had departed a few minutes earlier from Sao Gonçalo, the second largest municipality in the state. It belonged to the line 2520, which covers the road Jardim Alcântara – Estacio.

The Special Operations Battalion (Bope), the Rio de Janeiro elite police group with snipers, moved several units to the scene.

Around 9 am, the abductor came down from the bus carrying a gun on the head of a hostage. Immediately, gunshots were heard and celebrations were held among the troops. The kidnapper was shot and fell down the stairs of the bus. The spokesman of the military police, Mauro Fliess, confirmed that this man had been killed while he was carrying a toy pistol, according to the newspaper Oglobo.