The bus hijacker in Rio handed himself over: all 17 hostages freed

After almost three hours of tension, the hijacker of the bus with 17 hostages on board in the Rio de Janeiro bus station handed himself over. The military police confirms this. The man was arrested and all the hostages were freed.

The officers of the police special operations battalion (BOPE) have been in action for hours. According to initial information from the military police, the man shot, hitting two people. The injured were rescued. The bus was located on a central platform of the Nova Rio station, which has a total of 75 platforms and where 41 transport companies operate, for a traffic of 38 thousand passengers, which rises to 70 thousand on holidays.