Brazil journalist 'brain dead' after protest
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian television station says one of its cameramen has been declared brain dead after being injured during a violent protest in Rio de Janeiro.
Band TV says in a Monday statement that 49-year-old journalist Santiago Andrade remains in a coma on life support, but that doctors have declared him brain dead.
Andrade was hit in the head by a powerful flare fired during a protest against a 10-cent hike in bus fares in Rio.
Video footage seemed to show that the flare was shot off by protesters. One demonstrator has turned himself into police, though he says he didn't shoot the flare, but provided it to another young man who did.
Anti-government protests erupted across Brazil last June. They've diminished in size, but remain violent.
