All news on the topic: Brazil

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Boy, 14, dies after being bitten by mosquito while visiting family abroad
The 'special angel' teenager had been staying in the country to stay with his mum's family when his health deteriorated after a mosquito bite, with his family flying from Europe to be at his side
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'I fell in love with the man who mugged me - he stole my phone and my heart'
A Brazilian man says he nicked his now girlfriend Emanuela's phone while she was walking down the street because he was "going through a difficult situation" due to not being in a relationship
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Horror as paedophile drags suitcase through streets containing schoolgirl
Pictures, captured in Luziania, Brazil, show the man struggling to pull a heavy suitcase up two flights of stairs after he kidnapped the girl from outside her school
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Terrifying moment emergency door of plane suddenly opens in the middle of flight
The plane was carrying members of the band for popular South American popular singer Tierry, who was returning from a show in Brazil when suddenly the door flew open
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Baby girl drowned after falling headfirst into a bucket of water at home
A little baby girl was tragically found in a bucket of water by her mother in Brazil, after she turned her eye off her child for a split second to finish some cleaning
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Girl, 4, crushed to death in freak garden accident while she played in a hammock
Four-year-old Maria died shortly after she was admitted to hospital in Brazil, after a garden pillar suddenly collapsed onto her while swinging in a hammock
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Missing woman found trapped in 30-foot ditch near home 36 hours after vanishing
Maria Cristina Simoes Ferreira e Penha, 22, had gone out for the night to visit a club without her phone, but while she was away from home, she fell down a ditch in the neighbourhood of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim in southeast Brazil
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Woman dies in front of son after eating 'poisoned' chocolates on her birthday
Lindaci Viegas Batista de Carvalho died after eating some chocolate she was sent for her birthday by an anonymous person. Police are now investigating if she was poisoned
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Haunting final moments of influencer, 19, before she's shot by 'psychopath' ex
CCTV footage shows teenage influencer Micaelly dos Santos Lara getting into a car with her ex-boyfriend David Aparecido da Silva Alves, who killed her before turning the gun on himself
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Surgeon 'tries to sew baby's head back on' after she's decapitated during birth
The family have accused doctors at Hospital das Clinicas in Belo Horizonte, the capital of southeastern Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, of attempting to cover up the stomach-churning tragedy
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Man goes bungee jumping to celebrate divorce - ends up plunging 70ft as it snaps
Rafael dos Santos Tosta, 22, is now undergoing intensive recovery after fracturing his neck and lumbar after falling almost 70 feet at the the Lagoa Azul (Blue Lagoon) in Campo Magro, Brazil
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Boy, 3, left blind and unable to walk after being stung by a scorpion
Little Raimundo Neto was playing at his aunt's house in Brazil when he was stung by a scorpion and suffered four cardiac arrests, leaving him blind and unable to walk
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Man posing as delivery driver murders student, 20, in robbery attempt
CCTV cameras on a neighbour's house in Brazil captured the horror moment when the couple were walking along the pavement and Acxel pulled out a gun with a delivery bag on his back
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Woman in throuple with two men claims people are envious of her lifestyle
Brazilian influencer Larissa "Lary" Ingrid, who has 441,000 followers on Instagram, has two partners and has dismissed her detractors as motivated by jealousy
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Woman catches painful flesh-eating parasite in her eye from contact lenses
Lilian Melchert, 30, a Brazilian influencer, said she recalled waking up to pain so severe that "it felt like I was giving birth to a child through my eye" - which she later found was a carnivorous parasite
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Councillor tied up ex-husband and doused him in acid before he fled to tell cops
A Rio de Janeiro court sentenced Veronica Costa to 10 years and eight months, stipulating that her sentence must be served in a prison
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Builder killed woman before concreting her under staircase on construction site
Victim Joice Maria da Gloria Rodrigues, 25, was strangled to death with a shirt before her body was concealed on a construction site in Sao Vicente, Brazil
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Woman, 19, facing execution by firing squad gives explanation for drugs in bag
The trial of Brazilian national Manuela Vitoria de Araujo Farias, 19, has begun after she was charged with international drug trafficking in Indonesia - where prosecutors are pushing for the maximum sentence under the country's tough anti-drug laws
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Young nun shares life inside religious convent using Instagram to debunk myths
Sister Elizabete amassed hundreds of thousands of followers since taking over her convent's Instagram account to respond to common questions about religious life in Fortaleza, Brazil
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'Most ripped boy', 12, nicknamed 'mini-Hulk' for his punishing workout regime
Cauzinho Neto, 12, who lives in Salvador, Brazil, wakes up at 5.30am for a 3.1-mile run before performing a batch of sit-ups. When he gets home from school he'll do a two-and-a-half hour crossfit weight training session
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Nursery axe attack leaves four children dead after man scales wall into building
The man responsible for the attack, who killed four toddlers and babies with an axe in a nursery in Blumenau, southern Brazil, was arrested after turning himself in
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Inside squalid flat baby was found dead as mum accused of being out partying
In a case that shocked a local neighbourhood in Brazil, the infant’s corpse was found under a bed in a locked room after neighbours informed the authorities about a very strong smell coming from the home
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Mum lives with two boyfriends as she boasts they wash dishes and clean for her
Lary "Larissa" Ingrid, who lives with her partners in Fortaleza, Brazil, says she's even weighing up the possibility of adding a third lover after adding a second helped her alleviate her mental health issues
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Gravedigger finds woman barely alive inside bricked-up tomb
The 36-year-old was freed at the Municipal Cemetery of Visconde do Rio Branco in Brazil yesterday morning, after police heard cries for help from inside a bricked-up tomb
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Beauty queen plummets to her death from sixth floor trying to escape flat fire
Mayara Nitão, 27, from Brazil and who was crowned Miss Sertão Paraibano in January, plummeting from her sixth-floor flat to her death while trying to escape the fire in São Paulo