Brazil’s deadliest air disaster provoked anger over safety conditions in the aviation sector as rescuers on Thursday pulled more bodies from the burned-out wreckage. All 186 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus 320 were believed to have been killed in Tuesday’s fiery crash at São Paulo’s Cagonhas airport, along with a number of people on the ground.
Police shot dead at least 22 people on Wednesday in an iron-fisted crackdown against a powerful criminal gang blamed for lethal attacks in São Paulo as Brazil’s president criticised local authorities for refusing federal assistance. The clashes claimed the lives of 40 police and four members of the public, and 18 prisoners have died in prison riots blamed on the PCC gang.