CAMETA, BRAZIL — Only one day after a small army of heavily armed bank robbers besieged the southern Brazilian city of Criciuma, a similarly large group of gunmen besieged the city of Cameta, on the opposite side of the country. <br /><br />One civilian was killed and another wounded when the gunmen took residents hostage as they looted a bank. <br /><br />Para state officials said Wednesday that more than 20 criminals with assault rifles attacked a branch of the state-run Bank of Brazil in the city in the Amazon region overnight. <br /><br />Video on social media showed a line of roughly a dozen hostages being led away from a square in the city of 140,000 people, and shots ringing out in the night. <br /><br />Local media reported that a military police station was attacked, preventing officers from responding.<br /><br />"They drove around shooting at the police and at the houses. It was a horrible scene to see," said Junior Gaia, who lives nearby. "We were all lying on the floor, afraid they would invade our homes."<br /><br />The coordinated attack came a day after a similar overnight robbery in the southern city of Criciuma, when dozens of gunmen seized the city and took hostages as they used explosives to rob a bank.
