Tag: Northern Brazil

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Brazilian tribal chief allegedly murdered will be exhumed for an autopsy

  

  The body of a tribal chief allegedly murdered deep inside the Amazon in northern Brazil will be exhumed for an autopsy, officials said on Wednesday following international outcry over his death.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Inmates of Brazilian prison riots transferred to other jails; drug gangs rivalry and fighting out of control

  

  Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian prison gangs' rivalry leave at least 57 inmates killed, many decapitated

  

  At least 57 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the second major eruption of violence to rock the country's severely overpopulated and deadly prison system in as many months.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  French/Canadian consortium takes Petrobras major gas pipeline in north Brazil

  

  A consortium led by France's Engie SA submitted the highest offer for a major gas pipeline unit owned by Petrobras, the state-run oil firm said on Friday, as the company's biggest divestment draws to a close.

• Monday, January 29th 2018 - 10:50 UTC

  Drugs related shootings in northeast Brazil kill 14 in a nightclub

  

  At least 14 people were killed in a shootout at a nightclub in Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil, officials said on Saturday. “We can confirm 14 deaths,” Andre Costa, security secretary for the state of Ceara - of which Fortaleza is the capital - told a press conference.