Shots fired after man in Brazil hijacks bus, takes dozens of hostages

An armed man hijacked a bus in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, taking 37 commuters hostage before freeing six of them, officials and local media said.

Globo News, citing witnesses and police sources, reported that shots were fired and that the hostage-taker had apparently been killed, but there was no official confirmation of this.

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