Two men murdered seven people after losing a game of billiards in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso and the authorities confirmed the death of one of them during search operations, the Civil Police reported on Wednesday.
The event, which became known this Wednesday, occurred Tuesday night in a bar in the municipality of Sinop, located in the north of Mato Grosso (west), 480 kilometers from the regional capital Cuiabá and close to the Amazonian state of Pará.
According to the accounts of witnesses to the authorities, the two men lost a billiards game in which money was bet and after being mocked by the victors they left the place. Later they returned and fired indiscriminately against all the people. The victims included a 12-year-old girl.
The perpetrators of the massacre were identified by the establishment’s security cameras.
On Wednesday afternoon, during a shootout with the Police in a rural area near the Sinop airport, one of the attackers, Ezequias de Souza Ribeiro, 27, ended up dead. He was wounded and taken to a Sinop hospital, where he finally died, according to an official statement from the Mato Grosso Public Security Secretariat.
The other perpetrator of the massacre, Edgar Ricardo de Oliveira, who has an arrest warrant issued by the Justice, remains a fugitive.
The Civil Police told EFE that this Wednesday the van of the perpetrators of the massacre and one of the weapons used was found abandoned.
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