Girl, 13, confesses to fatal bus bombing

A 13-year-old girl has confessed to taking part in the firebombing of a city bus in Brazil that killed five passengers, authorities said today.

The teenager told police that she and another woman agreed to flag down the bus so that a group of five drug gang members could throw Molotov cocktails onto it, said Eliane Dornelles, a spokeswoman with Rio de Janeiro’s public safety secretariat.