The Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested the owner of the Chinese restaurant in Areia Preta where an explosion occurred last month, killing a woman and injuring six other people, a PJ spokesperson said during a regular press conference in Zape yesterday.
On the evening of July 3 an explosion ripped through an eatery on the ground floor of Block 2 of Pak Lei Estate in Avenida do Hipodromo. Firemen arrived at the restaurant soon after the blast, and found five injured people outside the restaurant and later rescued a man and a woman who were trapped under a collapsed wall between the eatery and the lobby of the residential building.
The seven people – three men and four women aged between 34 and 54, were taken to the public Conde de Sao Januario Hospital Centre. A 34-year-old local woman who had been trapped under the wall was pronounced dead at the public hospital. She died due to serious internal and external injuries and multiple bone fractures.
This photo taken on July 3 shows the area in front of the Chinese restaurant sealed off after the deadly blast. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
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