Brazilian Bank Heists Effect President on Firing Line

SÃO PAULO—Gunmen armed with explosives sowed fright in a single day in a small city in northern Brazil, primarily the most traditional in a spate of violent financial institution heists that like challenged President Jair Bolsonaro’s promise to revive legislation and yelp.

Better than a dozen males brandishing navy-vogue assault rifles stormed into Cametá, a sleepy riverside city of 134,000 of us in the Amazon on Tuesday night, and outmoded residents as human shields as they robbed a financial institution. One resident became once killed and one other injured in the 2½-hour assault.

The robbers got here away empty-handed because they blew originate the sinful safe, in step with the tell governor.

The onslaught got here a day after a gang of 30 males armed with navy-grade weapons invaded the southern city of Criciúma in a identical financial institution heist, leaving extra than $100,000 in financial institution notes scattered on town’s deserted streets as they fled.

Police said they had been investigating whether the crimes had been connected. Whereas it is no longer in reality the identical males conducted each and each assaults, which took bother extra than 2,000 miles aside, safety specialists said they attain amid a upward thrust in financial institution heists across the country’s smaller cities.