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Three men were arrested this Thursday 3-D in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul, suspected of having some kind of connection with the assault, which spread terror in Criciúma.
At least nine people were arrested by police for their alleged involvement in a film robbery perpetrated 1-D Tuesday in a southern Brazilian city, where heavily armed criminals took hostages, blocked roads, set vehicles on fire and shot about two. hours.
The assault took place in Criciúma, a city of about 200,000 inhabitants located in the southern state of Santa Catarina and where 30 heavily armed and hooded people broke in to rob a bank.
Three men were arrested this Thursday 3-D in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul, suspected of having some connection with the assault, which spread terror in Criciúma.
One of them was arrested at dawn in a house in the municipality of Tres Cachoeiras, about 100 kilometers from Criciúma, where bloody clothes, an explosives activator and eight cell phones were found.
Two other people were in the tourist town of Gramado, authorities explained at a press conference held this Thursday.
Six other people had been arrested the day before, two of them in Rio Grande do Sul, three in Santa Catarina and one in São Paulo.
The events occurred at dawn on Tuesday, when the bandits attacked the police battalion, took hostage several officials who were painting the security stripes on the streets at the time and put up barricades to prevent the passage of the authorities. while robbing the bank.
According to the authorities, the criminals carried large weapons, some of which were capable of shooting down a plane, and at least 30 kilos of explosives.
The criminals fled in 10 cars of great power and great commercial value which they then left abandoned about 18 kilometers from the city in a cornfield.
Less than 24 hours after the attack on Criciúma, a group of bandits carried out a robbery with a similar modus operandi in Cametá, a city in the Amazonian state of Pará (north), where criminals also used hostages as shields, attacked a police barracks and ransacked several banks.
One of the hostages was killed, while another was wounded in the assault.
Due to the complexity of the operations, the authorities are investigating the participation, if not directly associated, of any of the large criminal factions operating in the country, such as the First Capital Command (PCC) or the Vermelho Command (Red Command).
At the moment the sums stolen from the banks are not known.
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