Police arrests 28 people and avoids bank robbery

The Brazilian Federal Police avoided a major bank robbery in the city of Porto Alegre this Friday, arresting 28 people suspect of being involved in the heist. According to the federal agents, the group is linked to the PCC faction that have been causing chaos in Sao Paulo prison's and towns this year. They are also believed to be linked with the group that stole 167 million reais (close to US$ 80 million) from a bank in Fortaleza last year.

The group was making a tunnel from a neighbouring building into the bank's safe, as was the case in the Fortaleza robbery. The criminals would attack two banks in the same street simultaneously, from the same tunnel. The arrests came after a two-month investigation. The tunnel was already 80 metres long.