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| SAO PAULO – After stealing a car, getting in an accident and exchanging gunfire with police, two thieves took what some might think unusual action, in Santos, last Saturday. Surrounded, they fled into the bush, but, wounded and lost, they called the fire department and asked for help, reported G1.
Stolen Car used in Escape (Photo: Tatyana Jorge/TV Tribuna/G1)
| RIO DE JANEIRO – This afternoon, American Brent Winder Girault, 29, was shot in the knee during an attempted robbery in Botafogo, in Rio's South Zone. According to police, two armed men on a motorcycle approached the victim, who has lived in Rio for five years, as he got off a bus at the corner of Sao Clemente and Nelson Mandela streets. Police believe the robbers followed the man from a bank where he had withdrawn money.
Corner of Nelson Mandela & San Clemente streets (Photo: botafogoemacao.blogspot.com)
SAO PAULO – Bandits with Explosives hit two ATMs in the metropolitan area yesterday according to authorities. The thefts continue a rash of ATM heists this year bringing the total to 38 since January.
ATM Blown Open (photo: r7.com)
