Tag: Para

• Monday, September 4th 2023 - 11:04 UTC

  Brazilian authorities rescue 225 enslaved workers

  

  Brazilian authorities have rescued 225 people who were working in slavery-like conditions in the Amazonian state of Pará, it was reported Saturday. In 2023, a total of 2,575 said workers have been saved through various law enforcement operations, which represents a 31% increase from 2021.

• Monday, September 12th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  At least 22 killed as speedboat sinks in Brazilian state of Pará

  

  Brazilian authorities Sunday confirmed two more bodies had been retrieved after a boat sank Thursday morning near Cotijuba Island, in Belém, but it was not until this weekend that the accident has been reported.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Armed bank robbers storm mid-size city in northern Brazil and loot the local bank; second strike in two days

  

  A large gang of heavily armed bank robbers invaded the Brazilian city of Cameta just one day after a similar force struck another mid-sized city on the opposite side of the country, taking residents hostage as they looted a bank.

• Monday, May 20th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Eleven people killed in gang shooting in Brazil's northern city of Belém

  

  A gang of gunmen reportedly attacked a bar in the capital of Brazil’s northern Pará state Sunday afternoon, killing 11 people. The state security agency confirmed late Sunday only that six women and five men died in the incident in the Guamá neighborhood of the Pará state capital, Belém.