This is the terrifying moment gun-wielding robbers allegedly used 25 hostages as human shields after police foiled an attempted raid on a lottery shop in Brazil. The volatile incident lasted over three hours on Saturday afternoon, with the victims forced to hold hands and link arms as they shuffled along the streets of Manaus, the Amazon capital city, for just under a mile. Several eye witnesses filmed the exhausted and traumatised hostages moving in unison through the area with the would be robbers hiding in their midst. Applause broke out as officers were cheered by scores of onlookers who celebrated the end of the hostage crisis. 'The gunmen came running in threatening to set the lottery on fire if they didn't open the doors to the safes.

Source: Daily Mail October 16, 2018 11:32 UTC