At
least 14 people were killed in an early Saturday shootout at a nightclub in
Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil, officials said.
“We
can confirm 14 deaths,” Andre Costa, security secretary for the state of Ceara
— of which Fortaleza is the capital — told a press conference.
Costa
said that other victims were hospitalized in serious condition, but did not
give a number.
A
spokesperson from the Institut Jose Frota hospital told AFP that six people,
including a 12-year-old boy, had been rushed in for emergency care.
The
shooting broke out at 1:30 am when a group of armed men arrived in three
vehicles at the Forro do Gago nightclub in Fortaleza’s Cajazeiras neighborhood.
“It’s
a brutal scene, a massacre. Something you never see in Ceara,” a police
officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told news website G1.
Local
media reported that the shootout was a clash between members of two rival drug
trafficking gangs.
Officials
however remained tight lipped. “The investigation is still ongoing,” Costa
said.
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