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| RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Suspected robber, Virhilio Alexandre da Silva, 19, was taken to hospital after being pummeled by a crowd after he robbed the King of Pizza restaurant for the third time in a year and a half. He would have got away, say witnesses, but this time he decided to rob the patrons and employees too, reports terra.com.br
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A 31-year-old architect was shot five times while riding a motorcycle Saturday afternoon on the Marginal Tiete, a main highway that runs through the center this bustling city of 20 million people, reports terra.com.br.
SANTO ANASTACIO, Brazil - An operation carried out by the Military Police of Sao Paulo in this small town, 380 miles west of the capitol, in the early afternoon Saturday, resulted in the arrest of Matheus Ricardo Araujo dos Santos, 20, and the seizure of 900 kilos of marijuana, reports terra.com.br.
ITAPOLIS, Brazil – Police are looking for a man who rented a hotel room in this city, 222 miles from the state capitol Sao Paulo, then went room-to-room robbing other guests, reports O Globo online.
| RECIFE, Brazil – A man died of suffocation while trying to enter his house through the roof, Friday afternoon, in the Macaxeira neighborhood of Recife, Pernambuco, reports O Globo online.
BLUMENAU, Brazil – The rain that has slammed the state of Santa Catarina in recent days, has affected 819,338 people in 86 cities, according to a report released this morning by the state Civil Defense.
BRAZILIA, Brazil – President Dilma Rousseff sent on Saturday, a message to the U.S. President, Barack Obama, which expressed solidarity and sympathy for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th. Rousseff says that “violent extremism must be combated in all its forms, including through reconciliation between the West and the Arab world,” reports O Globo online.
VIAMAO, Brazil – Residents of this city of almost 300,000, located in the Metropolitan Porto Alegre region, are mobilizing through the social networking site Facebook, to give a symbolic embrace of Taruma Lake, on September 14th at 2 pm. The date of the embrace was chosen specifically as it is the 270th anniversary of the founding of the city, reports terra.com.br.
RECIFE, Brazil – Five people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the robbery of a church in the Maranguape II Paulista neighborhood of Metropolitan Recife, reported O Globo online.
Maranguape II Paulista (photo: vtg-paulista.blogspot.com)
CAMPINAS, Brazil – Police seized 48 tons of copper and aluminum wire stolen from electrical and telephone companies in an operation on Thursday, reported EPTV on Friday.
Copper Cable (photo: popsci.com)
