March 22 (UPI) -- Brazil's Movement of the Landless Rural Workers said Waldomiro Costa Pereira, a prominent land rights activist in the state of Pará, was fatally shot by gunmen while recovering in a hospital from a previous assassination attempt.
Costa Pereira was killed on Monday when five gunmen wearing helmets burst into General Public Hospital of the Parauapebas municipality in northern Brazil after arriving on motorcycles, officials said. Costa Pereira was admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit at dawn on Monday after an assassination attempt on Saturday.