Criminals detonate a bomb in the viaduct during the 9th day of attacks in Ceará | Ceará

• Attacks in Ceará: what is known and what is missing

The State has been under fire since January 2, when criminals burned buses, school buses. , prefecture vehicles, public buildings and crafts of the capital and the interior. The wave of violence is a reprisal to the government's action to increase the rigor in the inspection of the penitentiary units and to end the division of prisoners by factions in prisons.

Governor Camilo Santana (PT) announced that criminal faction leaders imprisoned in Ceará had been transferred to federal prisons. The Public Security Bureau reported that 239 suspects had been captured because of their involvement in the attacks.

The new secretary, Mauro Albuquerque, coordinates the apprehension of mobile phones

The new secretary, Mauro Albuquerque, coordinates the seizure of mobile phones.

Understand what is happening in Ceará

• The government created the Secretariat of the Prison Service and launched a series of actions to combat crime. , drugs and weapons in cells. He also said that he did not recognize the factions and that the state would stop sharing the prisoners because they belonged to criminal groups.
• Criminals began attacking public and private buildings and buses. Actions began in the metropolitan area and spread throughout the week.
• The government asked the help of the National Force. The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, authorized the sending of troops;
• The population of Fortaleza and the metropolitan area suffers frequent interruptions of public transportation, lack of garbage collection and closing of the trade.
• Wave of violence in Ceará took the tourists and put the occupation of hotels in the state from 85% to 65%.

At dawn on Thursday, criminals exploded the explosives in the structure of the viaduct around 0:40 Thursday. The impact of the explosive left holes in the bottom structure of the equipment. The explosion was heard by residents of other neighborhoods, police said.

Shortly after the crime, the national police and the anti-bomb brigade of the military police were deployed to reinforce security on the scene. A team of engineers from the City of Fortaleza has visited the site and is currently badyzing the structure of the viaduct in Parangaba district. The area was isolated by police and a Fortaleza metro station was closed early in the morning.

According to police, the mine clearance team had already seized an explosive material at the Light Rail Vehicle Station (VLT) on Wednesday (10). The VLT is near the viaduct where the bomb exploded.