Policeman disguised as a cameraman rescues a young girl taken hostage

A police sergeant disguised as a television cameraman rescued a 14-year-old saleswoman who had been held hostage for three hours by a robber...

A police sergeant disguised as a television cameraman rescued a 14-year-old saleswoman who had been held hostage for three hours by a robber who held a gun to her head, a police spokesman said.

Marcelo de Jesús Bastos, 20, and a friend entered a downtown sports clothing store to steal tennis shoes, shorts and T-shirts in São Paulo, Brazil, on October 11, 1990.

They panicked when police patrolling the area entered the store. Bastos took a young girl who worked as a salesperson, identified as Luciana Silva Oliveira, hostage, while her friend fled the scene.

Bastos, pointing a gun at Miss Oliveira's head, left the store but was cornered by more than 50 police officers in front of a nearby Pentecostal church.

After several hours of trying to negotiate with the criminal, police sergeant Claudio Manoel Falcao de Figueiredo, disguised as a television cameraman, slowly approached Bastos. Seeing that the gunman's gun was not cocked, he threw the camera at him and grabbed the gun.

Miss Oliveira was rescued unharmed

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