Top-flight footballer, 41, tragically dies as wall collapses in Brazil after gale force winds

A FORMER top-flight Brazilian footballer has died after a wall collapsed during storm-force winds which claimed the lives of five people. Ex-Botafogo striker Tassio Maia dos Santos, 41, was identified as one of two men killed in yesterday afternoon’s tragedy in the hilltop Rio de Janeiro district of Santa Teresa as it was battered by...