Governor Luiz do Rego sends troops to destroy a Sebastianist community, believing it to be a separatist movement. 100+ wounded; 200 women and 300 children are imprisoned and taken to Recife.[1][2]
256 mutinous soldiers are locked in the hold of the brigDiligente. The heat and lack of air cause the prisoners to panic. After multiple demands, the guards give them a small amount of water, and the prisoners brawl it. Fearing they might escape, guards fire their weapons into the hold and throw quicklime down the hatches before locking them. All but one prisoner dies.[3][4]
12 men, 12 women, and 30 children are sacrificed by a Sebastianist cult. 14 dogs are also killed. The cult's leader is eventually murdered by his brother who takes over the cult. The cult was dismantled following a police raid where 5 soldiers and 16 cult members (Including 3 women) are killed.[5][6]
Forty Indigenous people invade the city of Alcobaça, loot the guns of Manoel João, and attack inhabitants of the city. Raymundo Memado shoots and kills ten of the Indigenous people, causing their group to disband.[9]
Following the assassination of Mayor Julio Brasileiro, his nephew Alfredo Viana storms the city with 100 men to avenge his death. With help from a judge and the police chief, 18 of the former mayor's enemies are lured into the local jail and shot to death.[11]
Minister of war Eurico Gaspar Dutra orders the destruction of the religious community known as Caldeirão da Santa Cruz do Deserto. 200 policemen are sent to attack the community, and the area is bombed by three military airplanes.[14][15]
The Pernambuco police attack the religious community of Pau de Colher, which includes survivors from the Caldeirão massacre. It is estimated that a total of 1000 inhabitants were killed, including those who were shot by police and those who later died of starvation and thirst.[16]
A group of soldiers storm the local barracks to release Private Alvino Nicolau Alves, who had been arrested for attacking his commanding officer while drunk. 4 guards are killed in the attack.[17]
Police officers from the Department of Political and Social Order, of Pernambuco, (DOPS/PE) open fire on residents who work cutting sugarcane, resulting in two deaths and several injuries.[23]
Oficina de Reabilitação do Instituto Nacional de Previdência Social massacre
A crowd of 2,000 people invade the Umuarama Police Station and kill three prisoners who had raped a girl and murdered her boyfriend; the prisoners' bodies are burned in a public square.[33][34][35][36]
100+ wounded. Three workers die in an attempt by the police and the army to retake control of the steel company facilities. Two of the workers are shot and taken by their colleagues to a hospital. One was found with heavy bruises on the head.[43][44][45][46]
FARC guerrillas assault the Solimoes river control post in the remote region of the Traira River, near the border with Colombia. The attack leaves three Brazilian soldiers dead and nine wounded. In response, the Brazilian army launches Operation Traira.[52][53]
The massacre is triggered by a prisoner revolt within the prison. The police make little if any effort to negotiate with the prisoners before the military police storm the building, as the prison riot becomes more difficult for prison guards to control. The resulting casualties are 111 prisoners killed and 37 more injured.
A group of 5 criminals led by Paulo Mapará, invade the Conjunto PAAR police station, in Ananindeua, and kill 2 police officers, 2 investigators, and 1 delegate.[54][55][56]
Conflict between police officers and landless peasants results in the death of 12 people, including a nine-year-old child and two police officers, with 64 injured[57][58]
Former military man Genildo Ferreira de França kills 14 or 15 people and injures one in a 2-day shooting in Santo antônio do Potengi, in revenge for comments about his sexual orientation, before committing suicide when cornered by police.
Thirty gunmen attack the Engenho Camarazal camp, in the city of Nazaré da Mata, Zona da Mata North of Pernambuco, shooting at landless rural workers camped in the area. Five workers are injured, including two children. Pedro Augusto da Silva and Inácio José da Silva, brothers-in-law, are murdered after being brutally tortured.[64][65]
A Portuguese immigrant lures six Portuguese businessmen with the promise of women; the perpetrator abducts the victims and beats them to death after drawing out 46 thousand reals from their credit cards.[89][90][91][92][93][94][95]
A 17-year-old student identified as E. R., armed with an .38 revolver, shoots 15-year-old Vanessa Carvalho Batista in the head, killing her instantly. He then fires shots at Natasha Silva Ferreira, also 15 years old, seriously injuring her, in the Colegio Sigma; she then dies at the hospital. The shooter said he did not have a good relation with the two girls, and said that they ridiculed him publicly.[100][101][102]
A 17-year-old youth shoots and kills 13-year-old Farlley Bastos Almeida, who had previously ridiculed him, and then forces a taxi driver to take him to a nearby EDP school. There he shoots and kills 23-year-old Ana Paula Feitosa de Almeida and wounds two others before being subdued by two students. A woman, afraid of getting shot, jumped out of a window in the third floor and broke her legs. In custody, the youth states that he sympathized with Islamic terrorists and had intended to kill at least a hundred people.[103]
Seven homeless people are beaten to death in the centre of São Paulo. Two military police officers and a private security guard are subsequently charged with the killings. However, the charges are dropped on the grounds of insufficient evidence.[108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116]
Police execute twelve black boys and men with shots to the neck in the Vila Moises area, in the Cabula neighborhood, in the city of Salvador; 6 wounded.[138][139]
A man angry that his ex-wife left him went to a New Year's party his ex-wife's family was holding, and fatally shot her, her family, and his son; with 3 wounded, as well.
A daycare security guard locks himself in a room with children between the ages of 3 and 7, douses the children and the room with fuel, and sets the fuel alight; 37 wounded as well.
A group of heavily armed men — riding on a motorcycle and in three cars — go on a shooting rampage at a bar in Brazil, killing at least 11 people on a Sunday.[165][166]
An 18-year-old man, Fabiano Kipper Mai, breaks into a daycare center with a machete in hand, killing 2 teachers and three children, as well as injuring a fourth. The attacker tries to commit suicide by cutting his neck, but survives and is rushed to the hospital.
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