Woman buried alive for 10 hours in Brazil cemetery found hanged after being removed from cemetery Mother-of-four beaten and dragged from her home by drug dealers after losing her stash
- Two men, aged 20 and 22, are under arrest in Minas Gerais, Brazil, after they buried a woman alive in a cemetery on March 28.
- The victim, a 36-year-old mother, told cops that she was attacked because she had lost drugs and weapons that she had been keeping for the suspects in her home.
- She is still in hospital and could have one of her fingers amputated
At least two men have been arrested after a 36-year-old woman was found buried alive in a cemetery in Brazil.
The victim, a mother of four, was beaten and dragged from her home by the attackers on March 28 and abandoned inside a cemetery in the Visconde do Rio Branco Municipal Cemetery in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.
She survived underground for about 10 hours before gravediggers noticed fresh cement and blood near the grave. Their suspicions are confirmed when they hear a woman crying for help from within.
The Visconde do Rio Branco Civil Police held a press conference on Tuesday to announce the concerns, which occurred Saturday night in the municipalities of São Giraldo and Viçosa.
Police Chief Diego Candian said the unnamed defendants, aged between 20 and 22, were planning to flee to Rio de Janeiro after their horrific crime.
Police in Minas Gerais, Brazil found a woman buried alive inside a grave on March 28 after drug dealers beat her inside her home because she had lost drugs and weapons she had hidden away from them. Two suspects were arrested after they were spotted in front of the cemetery on Saturday night as they were planning to escape to Rio de Janeiro.
Cops look at the grave where the 36-year-old mother of four was buried on March 28. The woman remains in the hospital but will likely have her thumb amputated
The woman told police she was assaulted after she “abusived” the drugs and weapons she had hidden for them in her home.
The two young men had been arrested in the past for smuggling weapons and drugs. They will be held in pretrial detention for up to 30 days.
Authorities are looking for a third suspect.
“There is still an individual on the run,” Police Chief Douglas Muto said. “We are still constantly working so that we can locate this person and make an arrest as quickly as possible and then leave him at the disposal of justice.”
The suspects broke into her home on March 28 and assaulted her husband, who managed to escape.
Then they managed to get it out of the house, take it to the cemetery and stuff it inside the grave.
The woman noticed that she was stuck in the grave after she regained consciousness.
The grave diggers were shocked to find blood and fresh cement on the grave, then heard the woman’s cries for help before reporting to the police.
A 36-year-old woman was found buried alive in a cemetery at the Visconde do Rio Branco Municipal Cemetery in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on March 28.
Cemetery workers heard her weak cries for help and immediately called the police before an emergency rescue team pulled her from the burial site.
Henrik Slade, director of Joao Batista Hospital, said the woman had a head injury and was at risk of losing a finger.
“The possibility of vascular surgery and possibly amputation is being evaluated,” Slade said, adding that the victim is in intensive care and is improving but may undergo vascular surgery.
