RIO DE JANEIRO, March 12 (Reuters) - Police in Brazil arrested a man on Tuesday after he hijacked a bus and shot two people at a bus station in Rio de Janeiro before holding 17 people hostage for ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have arrested 12 people suspected of setting fire to 35 buses Monday after a leader of one of the Brazilian city’s paramilitary forces was killed in a police operation.

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Authorities deployed helicopters and other extra security Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro after members of a criminal gang set fire to at least 35 buses in apparent retaliation for the ...

A burned bus sits idle in the street the day after it and other vehicles, train and bus stations were set fire in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) ...

Brazil police: An armed man held dozens hostage on bus in Rio de Janeiro. An armed man threatened to set a public bus on fire with 37 hostages inside in Rio de Janeiro.

Federal Highway Police said the man had been holding passengers hostage since about 5:30 a.m. local time on a bridge connecting the suburb of Sao Gonçalo to Rio de Janeiro. He was threatening to ...

Police escort the bus that an armed man had seized, taking dozens of hostages, on the bridge connecting the city of Niteroi to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 20, 2019. Leo Correa / AP ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A powerful summer storm swept through Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night, leaving at least six people dead, as streets turned into rivers and mudslides destroyed homes and buried ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are deploying helicopters and other extra security after members of a criminal gang set fire to at least 35 buses in apparent retaliation for ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are deploying helicopters and other extra security after members of a criminal gang set fire to at least 35 buses in apparent retaliation for ...