11 people dead in Brazil after seven gunmen opened fire in a bar

Brazilian authorities say there has been a ‘massacre’ in the country’s northern Pará state without releasing any details, while Brazilian news media say gunmen attacked a bar in Belem City and killed 11 people.

The G1 news website says police reported that seven gunmen opened fire on a bar on Sunday afternoon. G1 says police also report one man was wounded in the attack.

The victims are said to be five women and six men. One of the victims is said to be the owner of the bar, according to local reports. 

The owner has been identified as Maria Ivanilza Pinheiro Monteiro or ‘Vanda’ (Wanda) and the bar is known as Vanda’s (Wanda) Bar and Drinks. 

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The identities of three other victims have been released but most did not have identification on them, O Liberal states.

They are: 21-year-old DJ Leandro Breno Tavares da Silva, 25-year-old employee Paulo Henrique Passos Ferreira and 33-year-old Raquel da Silva Franco.

Anderson Gonçalves dos Santos is said to have been the person who survived the attack. 

Video released shows the aftermath of the shooting, with many of the victims shot in the head and blood all over the bar. Drugs can be seen near some of the bodies.

The victims are said to be five women and six men

The gunmen are said to have traveled on three motorcycles and a silver car. They escaped using routes connecting to the building, which further led authorities to believe that the bar was a drug den

The gunmen are said to have traveled on three motorcycles and a silver car. They escaped using routes connecting to the building, which further led authorities to believe that the bar was a drug den.

The Homicide Division of the Civil Police is conducting interviews and trying to determine the identities of the gunmen. No one has yet to be arrested.

General delegate Alberto Teixeira stated that the deaths were execution style, with some of the victims suffering head wounds while others were shot multiple times.

A Pará state spokeswoman, Natalia Mello, says she can only ‘confirm’ there was a massacre in the state.

Many of the victims were shot in the head and blood was splattered all over the bar. Drugs could be seen near some of the bodies

The Homicide Division of the Civil Police is conducting interviews and trying to determine the identities of the gunmen. No one has yet to be arrested

The massacre occurred in Belem City and in an area known for its drug use

Pará governor, Helder Barbalho, called an emergency meeting late last night (Sunday) with security officials at government offices.

In a video posted on his social networks he pledged to do all he could to fight the violence and guaranteed ‘absolute (swift and complete support) to the investigations’.

‘Let’s not back down. If this incident, which occurred in the Guamá neighbourhood, is to intimidate public security forces led by the government, it will not. We will remain firm and work to guarantee the right of the population to have a quality of life, peace and security.’

O Globo reports that police know the bar as being ‘a place for drug use.’ 

Some videos taken right after the shooting were posted on social media, showing slain people laying on the ground and a dead woman on top of the bar’s counter.

The killings took place in the Guamá neighborhood, one of the seven most violent spots in the metropolitan Belem area where federal troops were sent in March to boost security.