Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff spent hours in emergency talks with ministers after another night of mass nationwide protests turned violent, with two people killed.
As many as one million people were thought to have joined demonstrations on the streets of more than 100 cities across Brazil on Thursday night to protest against the standard of public services, corruption and the pay gap.
The biggest night of action turned violent as protesters were scattered around cities by police, who used stun bombs and rubber bullets.
A street cleaner in her 50s, named locally as Cleonice Vieira, reportedly suffered two heart attacks after breathing in tear gas during demonstrations in the city of Belem in the north of Brazil.
She had been with a group of other street cleaners who tried to protect themselves from the gas fired by police to disperse the 15,000-strong crowd. More + video...
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As many as one million people were thought to have joined demonstrations on the streets of more than 100 cities across Brazil on Thursday night to protest against the standard of public services, corruption and the pay gap.
The biggest night of action turned violent as protesters were scattered around cities by police, who used stun bombs and rubber bullets.
A street cleaner in her 50s, named locally as Cleonice Vieira, reportedly suffered two heart attacks after breathing in tear gas during demonstrations in the city of Belem in the north of Brazil.
She had been with a group of other street cleaners who tried to protect themselves from the gas fired by police to disperse the 15,000-strong crowd. More + video...
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