Sergipe

Brazil’s sports court suspended the president of fourth-division club Sergipe for 30 days after he came onto the pitch and punched a referee in a Brazilian Cup match against top-flight team Botafogo in March.

Costa also said that the president would visit the state of Sergipe on Feb. 15 to resume a highways program.

Local authorities in Sergipe state, in northeast Brazil, also reported a fatality.

Lucas Rosario, a spokesperson for Sergipe’s Public Security Secretariat, which oversees the state’s police, declined to comment on the video’s veracity.

Sergipe’s Institute of Forensic Medicine, which overseas autopsies, said Thursday that Santos died of asphyxia but that it could not determine the “immediate cause” of death.