Brazilian police arrest five in alleged plot to kill president Lula and stage coup

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested five people suspected of involvement in an alleged coup attempt in which they planned to kill then president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his vice-president weeks before they took office, police said. The arrests were the first time in the investigation that federal police have mentioned a plot to kill Lula and Geraldo Alckmin, his choice as vice-president. Most of those investigated are military personnel with Special Forces training, the police said in a statement.