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La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, November 14, 2024, p. 21

Brasilia. A man loaded with explosives died yesterday while trying to enter the Supreme Federal Court of Brasilia, in a failed attack less than two years after an attack against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the same place.

First a car exploded. Afterwards, a man approached the court, tried to enter, but failed and the explosion occurred at the door.stated the acting governor of Brasilia, Celina Leao.

The preliminary information is that it was a suicideLeao added.

The incident took place in Brasilia’s Three Powers Square, where the country’s main government buildings are located.

Lula’s spokesman said the president was not in the neighboring presidential palace at the time of the explosion.