In Brazil, an armed group seized a hospital and killed a father and son

A group of at least four gunmen killed two people and wounded three more in an attack this Wednesday on the Emergency Hospital in Resende, an important city in the interior of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Two of the dead were father and son, and two of the three injured also belong to the same family.

The gang broke into the hospital parking lot in a car that arrived at high speed shortly before the start of visiting hours, and the killers were already out of the car, firing. Apparently, the targets were indeed the families of the two victims, since the perpetrators, despite the fact that there were many other people waiting to enter and visit the hospitalized relatives, aimed only at specific targets and, having shot them, ran at the same speed as they arrived..

Paulo Sergio Martins da Silva, 50, and one of his sons, Renato Martins da Silva, 19, were shot to death. Another son, Paulo Sergio, 26, nephew, 42, who works in the hospital as a boy on a stretcher, and a third person, not related to the family, were injured and needed surgery at the infirmary itself, one of them in serious condition this Thursday.

There was widespread panic among people waiting to visit family and friends, as well as those waiting for help in the hospital lobby, but after the perpetrators fled, the situation was brought under control. A large number of military police (public security) officers were sent to the scene, who searched the entire area, but were unable to arrest the killers, and the civilian police (judiciary) had already launched an investigation into the attack and its motives. shooters trying to destroy this particular family.