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Brazil senator was shot in a stand-off with police

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A Brazilian senator, Cid Gomes, has been injured after shots were fired at him during a stand-off with police.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that Senator Gomes, 56, was driving a digger towards a fence behind which a group of masked military police officers was protesting when he was hit by two bullets in the town of Sobral.

He is in hospital in a stable condition.

For months, members of the military police have been conducting strikes and protests to demand pay increases.

Date
2020.02.20 / 18:53
Author
Axar.az
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