Bodies of Four Missing Bahian Workers Identified in Paraíba as RS Plane Crash Kills Three

Overview

• Paraíba’s forensic institute, which confirmed the identities Friday, said all four men were shot and three had their hands tied, indicating possible executions.
• Investigators found a black Celta near the João Pessoa site and say a tip about the abandoned car led officers to the bodies; the victims had been lodging in Bayeux for construction work.
• In Capão da Canoa, Rio Grande do Sul, a small plane crashed onto a closed restaurant, killing at least three people and leaving one person unaccounted for, according to firefighters and the state military police.
• Ceará’s civil police arrested a 21-year-old in Beberibe suspected of a March 8 attempted mass killing in Fortaleza and seized three guns, while a 19-year-old at the scene was also detained.
• São Paulo state police in Presidente Prudente arrested three men tied to the fatal shooting of a man who had attacked a local Afro-Brazilian religious center and seized phones, drugs, and a car linked to the crime.