At least 14 people were killed in an early Saturday shootout at a nightclub in Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil, officials said. “We can confirm 14 deaths,” Andre Costa, security secretary for the state of Ceara — of which Fortaleza is the capital — told a press conference. Something you never see in Ceara,” a police officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told news website G1. Local media reported that the shootout was a clash between members of two rival drug trafficking gangs. Last year there was a record 5,114 murders in the state of Ceara, a 50 percent rise from 2016.

Source: Punch January 27, 2018 16:09 UTC