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CCTV images show brutal attack on bar cashier in Concepción
🇵🇾 Paraguay /Conflict & Security

CCTV images show brutal attack on bar cashier in Concepción

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • A man armed with a knife took a cashier hostage at the San Blas bar in Concepción, Paraguay, on June 9.
  • The attacker, identified as Aníbal Cayetano Ramírez Ortiz, had a prior domestic violence charge.
  • Police intervened, and during negotiations, the hostage escaped but was stabbed; an officer then shot the attacker, who later died.

Security camera footage captured a brutal knife attack on a cashier at the San Blas bar in Concepción, Paraguay, on June 9. Aníbal Cayetano Ramírez Ortiz, 45, entered the establishment armed with a large, recently sharpened knife.

Ramírez Ortiz, who had a previous domestic violence charge from August 2024, immediately approached the cash register. He took the employee, María Liz Cañete Peralta, hostage, initially attempting to stab her. She fell to the ground, pleading for her life, which seemingly deterred him from his initial intent.

As police surrounded the building and cordoned off the area, the head of Concepción Investigations, Commissioner Jorge Vidallet, attempted to negotiate Ramírez Ortiz's surrender. After hours of failed negotiations, Cañete Peralta seized an opportunity to escape. However, as she fled through a narrow corridor, Ramírez Ortiz caught up to her and stabbed her in the right side.

Commissioner Vidallet intervened, placing himself between the attacker and the victim. Ramírez Ortiz then lunged at the commissioner with the knife, but Vidallet dodged the blow and fired his weapon, striking the assailant in the face. Cañete Peralta was treated by paramedics and taken to the hospital, where she remains in serious condition. Her attacker died the following day at a local medical center.

the man from the beginning tried to stab the woman, but she threw herself to the ground and begged for her life, which apparently made the attacker give up his initial intentions.

— Article TextDescribing the initial moments of the hostage situation at the San Blas bar.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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