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Summary A police helicopter crash in Brazil killed eight people, including a man suspected of mass murder.
A police helicopter crashed in Brazil, killing all eight passengers, including federal agents and a man accused of murdering seven people.The accident took place in the city of Piranhas, in the central-western state of Goias, as the agents and the suspect were flying back from the city of Doverlandia, were the alleged crime took place.One local resident, the ranch famer Edmar Vivella, described the moment of the accident.The man looked up to the sky and told me a helicopter was crashing. One of them said Oh my god, everyone will die. It was like the helicopter was doing flyovers. It was spinning on the air and then disappeared, he said.The man accused of murder, Aparecido Souza Alvez, had been charged with killing a farm owner and six others with the help of three accomplices in April. He was recently filmed taking part in a re-enactment of the alleged crimes.Rescuers have so far recovered one body from the scene of the crash.The cause of the helicopter accident is still under police investigation.
