A sniper killed the kidnapper in Rio

The man who kidnapped a group of 40 pbadengers on board was killed by a sniper during the rescue operation on the bridge linking the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi, the spokesman said. militarized police, Colonel Marcio Fliess. cited by the Globe chain.

The hostages taken on the bridge between Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi kept Brazil in suspense. A facial-covered subject of a handkerchief climbed into the bus with three barrels of gasoline and, under pain of firing pbadengers, ordered the driver to cross the bus into the central lanes to obstruct the pbadage of vehicles.

The bus was encircled by military police who, with the help of a negotiator, tried to persuade the abductor to give up his attitude. At first, we did not know exactly the number of hostages, although it was estimated that there were 40, including four – three women and one man – were released before the guilty is not killed.

The motivation of the kidnapper has not transcended, but the police think that it is a premeditated act. Traffic on the bridge linking Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi was blocked in both directions.

The Presidente Costa e Silva Bridge, known as the Río-Niterói Bridge, crosses Guanabara Bay in the state of Rio de Janeiro. With an extension of 13 kilometers, it is the longest in Latin America.

After 8 hours, there was a moment of extreme confusion. A man dressed in white left the bus and the local press confused him with the kidnapper because of the color of his clothes. However, he was the sixth hostage to be released.

More than three hours after the start of the hostage, negotiations continued to secure the delivery of the criminal. Apparently, he made no concrete request to his interlocutors.

At 09:02, gunshots were heard on the Rio-Niterói Bridge and immediately afterwards the police started to party. A few minutes later, it was confirmed that the criminal had been shot and that the 31 people he had held hostage were out of danger.