14 dead in Brazil’s Amazon plane crash

Sao Paulo, Sep 17 (UNI) At least 14 people were killed when a small plane crashed on Saturday in Barcelos, an inland city of Amazonas state in northern Brazil, local authorities said. “They were all tourists who were going on a fishing trip,” Amazonas governor Wilson Lima told a press conference, adding that initial information…

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Fire at Brazilian settlement kills 9

Rio De Janeiro, Dec 11 (UNI) Nine people were killed after a fire at a settlement belonging to the Landless Workers’ Movement in the Brazilian Amazon, firefighters said Sunday. The blaze at the Land and Liberty camp in the city of Parauapebas, a municipality in the state of Para in the northern region of Brazil,…

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