The emotion marks the burial of victims of an attempted robbery at a bank in Ceará | New

In a place in the rural area of ​​Brejo Santo, south of Ceará, the sadness of the Franciscan farewell to Edneide da Cruz Santos. The Ceará woman, who lived in São Paulo, was going to visit her family when the car they were in was intercepted and another vehicle was intercepted by the bandits. According to the police, the criminals took the hostages to the town of Milagres, Ceará, where they planned to steal two bank branches. But the police arrived during the action. There was 20 minutes of filming.

His mother claims that her daughter was hit by a shot that left the police.

"My boy and one of the thugs who were with us saw him shoot the thug, and then my boy said to the policeman," You killed my sister. "Then the policeman told him "

In addition to Francisca, five other people of the same family are dying: Vinicius, 14, and his father, João Batista Magalhaes, who went to fetch their brother-in-law and a nephew from the family. 39 airport.

"Six innocent lives mown so brutally … Terrible!" War scenario I saw, which I saw in Ceará, "said John Daniel, cousin of John the Baptist.

"Vinícius was a wonderful person who was part of everything that was going on in school, in our life," Vinicius friend Caroline Sousa Barros said.

Fourteen people died. In addition to the six hostages, eight suspects participated in the attempted robbery.

To date, eight suspects have been arrested. Five of them were captured while they were driving on a highway between Juazeiro do Norte and Milagres. For the police, they were trying to rescue other hooligans hidden in the area.

Police have been reinforced in the city, but the population is still afraid of violence.

"Door closed directly, I do not trust at all because the speech says that others will come back to save those who have been arrested," said housewife Maria Filomena Alves.