A hijacker has taken the passengers of a bus hostage on a bridge in Brazil. Armed police have surrounded the vehicle and begun negotiating with the suspect. After holding the passengers hostage for ...

A man who took a bus and its 37 passengers hostage on a bridge in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro was shot dead on Tuesday by a police sniper, according to authorities. The hostage taker, who ...

A hijacker armed with what turned out to be a fake gun was shot and killed by police in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday after he held a busload of passengers hostage for several hours on a major bridge in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A police sniper in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday shot dead a man who had hijacked a bus on a bridge across Guanabara Bay and taken 37 people hostage, in a dramatic end to an ...

The gunman was holding at least 16 bus passengers hostage on a busy bridge out of the city, officials said. A gunman holding a busload of passengers hostage in Rio de Janeiro was shot dead by police ...