Brazil: TV cameraman killed during Rio police raid

telegraph.co.uk

A Brazilian television cameraman has been fatally shot early while filming during a police raid outside Rio de Janeiro.

Bandeirantes television cameraman Gelson Domingos was hit in the chest by a rifle shot while covering the police confrontation with gang members at the Antares slum in Rio's west side early Sunday Photo: AP

7:00AM GMT 07 Nov 2011

Gelson Domingos, 46, was shot in the chest while covering special police operations at the Brazilian port city's Antares shantytown and was declared dead at a local hospital.

Officials said the bullet that killed Domingos pierced the protective flak jacket he was wearing and that he was already dead when he arrived at a hospital emergency room.

"Efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful," a government statement said after the police operation.

The network said the TV journalist, a married father of three, was "a victim of the violence that affects innocent people every day in Brazil."

Police also said that the reporters had not been invited to cover the raid because it was so dangerous.

The Rio journalists union blamed TV Bandeirantes for the reporter's death.
"Bullet-proof vests are not safe against the weapons used by the drug traffickers and police," said union president Suzana Blass.
Police asked the network to see the footage Domingos took immediately before he was shot.
Four suspected criminals were killed and eight accused drug traffickers were arrested in the operation, said police, who also seized a sizeable cache of weapons.
With Rio due to serve as the host city for the World Cup final in 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games, authorities in Brazil have been pushing steadily into several slums to stamp out nests of crime and violence.

domingo, 6 de novembro de 2011 - 10h49 Atualizado em domingo, 6 de novembro de 2011 - 15h47

Band lamenta morte de cinegrafista no RJ

Repórter cinematográfico foi atingido por um tiro de fuzil na favela Antares, zona oeste da cidade

Gelson Domingos, de 46 anos, deixa três filhos, dois netos e a esposa Reprodução/BandNews TV

Da Redação noticias@band.com.br

O Grupo Bandeirantes lamenta a morte do seu funcionário Gelson Domingos, de 46 anos, na manhã deste domingo. O repórter cinematográfico foi atingido no peito em pleno exercício da sua profissão na cobertura de uma operação da polícia na favela de Antares, em Santa Cruz, na zona oeste do Rio. Ele chegou a ser socorrido e levado para a Unidade de Pronto Atendimento da região, mas não resistiu.

O funcionário estava de colete à prova de balas – modelo permitido pelas Forças Armadas, sempre usados por profissionais da Band em situações como esta. Ele foi atingido por um tiro de fuzil, provavelmente disparado por um traficante.

Gelson Domingos deixa 3 filhos, 2 netos e esposa. Repórter cinematográfico da TV Bandeirantes, ele já trabalhou em outras emissoras como SBT e Record e sempre foi reconhecido pela experiência e cautela no trabalho que exercia.

O Grupo Bandeirantes se solidariza com a família e está prestando toda a assistência.

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