Rio de Janeiro.- A shooting during carnival in the municipality of Magé, a suburb of the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, left at least two dead, including a 9-year-old girl, and 19 injured.
“One of those involved in the exchange of shots is a criminal, known by the alias ‘Bu’, and would have started the confrontation. He was shot in the chest and was admitted to the Saracuruna Hospital. The second person involved was injured in the leg “The police said in a brief note.
According to G1, the shooting began during an argument over a woman between a criminal and a civilian police officer.
For its part, in a statement, the Magé city council “deeply regretted what happened” and said that, to guarantee security, more than 40 agents and 120 guards from a private company had been deployed.
Videos circulating on social networks show several people on the ground, while others try to help them. You can also see how the wounded are carried in their arms by several men and taken in a van to the hospital.
“It was confusing. I saw a pregnant woman wounded, a child shot in the head,” Igor Matheus, who was at the scene at the time of the shooting, told reporters.
