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Two teenagers were killed and three others wounded on Thursday after gunmen opened fire outside a school in Sobral, a town in the northeastern state of Ceará, authorities confirmed. According to a statement from the Ceará state government, the attackers shot into the school’s parking lot from the sidewalk before…
An airplane with 62 people on board crashed Friday in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, firefighters and the airline Voepass said. Although no official death toll has been given, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said during an official event that it appeared there were no survivors. “A plane just crashed…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have apprehended Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, a Brazil returnee, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Udechukwu ingested 60 wraps of cocaine, totaling 1.279 kilograms, on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil. This was made known in a statement signed by the Director,…
