Passenger killed as gunman takes 40 hostages on bus

A gunman held 40 passengers on a Rio de Janeiro bus hostage for nearly an hour, killing one man before being arrested, police said today.

The hostage situation began yesterday evening after Wellington Luiz Goncalves de Jesus de Souza, 23, held up a city bus inside a major tunnel linking the Brazilian city’s southern and western districts and began robbing passengers, police said.