News card: Two suspects killed, three officers wounded in Belo Horizonte gunfight

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Two suspects killed, three officers wounded in Belo Horizonte gunfight. File photo from February 2016 by HVL, CC BY 4.0: a white Minas Gerais Military Police patrol car parked in Coronel Fabriciano, Brazil; not from the Oct 16 shootout. Key facts: about 11 PM Friday Oct 16 local time, during an anti-drug-trafficking operation; police say three men opened fire on Tático Móvel officers, who fired back; two suspects died at hospital and three officers were hurt and are stable; a.38 revolver and a 9 mm pistol were seized, per police, and a third suspect fled. Sources: g1 Minas, O Tempo, Minas Gerais Military Police. exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-16-br-bh-shootout. @exeindex. — File, Feb 2016: a PMMG patrol car in Coronel Fabriciano, MG. not from the Oct 16 shootout. Photo: HVL, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) · CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY 4.0 EXE Index

Oct 16: Two suspects died and three officers were wounded in a gunfight during an anti-drug-trafficking operation in the Barreiro region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Minas Gerais Military Police say. A third suspect fled. The officers are stable. Record

What: News card: Two suspects killed, three officers wounded in Belo Horizonte gunfight
Where: Latin America
When: 2026-10-16
Source: g1 Minas
Credit: File, Feb 2016: a PMMG patrol car in Coronel Fabriciano, MG. not from the Oct 16 shootout. Photo: HVL, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
License: CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY 4.0 EXE Index
Details: Latin America, Brazil

crime Brazil Latin America

Sources and credit

g1 Minas
Dispatch: the full record