Death squad suspected in 5 Rio slayings
POSTED: 10:52 a.m. EST, March 5, 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Masked gunmen shot dead five people, including a teenager, during a children's party at a school soccer field on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro over the weekend, police said Monday.
Police in the poor suburb of Nova Iguacu suspected a death squad in the execution-style shootings, which sowed panic among children and parents on Saturday night. Two years ago, Nova Iguacu was the scene of one of Rio's worst death-squad massacres.
"Judging by the way the people were killed, the murders are certainly linked to an extermination group," an investigator, who did not want to be named, told Reuters.
The groups are often made up of off-duty police or former soldiers and charge slum dwellers fees to kill off drug traffickers or thieves.
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New Massacre of Youngsters in Brazil. Police Are Main Suspect
Written by Elma Lia Nascimento
Monday, 05 March 2007
Five young men were murdered Saturday night in a school of Nova Iguaçu, in the Baixada Fluminense, an area to the north of Rio and part of the Greater Rio de Janeiro. For police chief Fábio Pacífico Marques, head of the 58th Police Bureau a death squad might be behind the massacre.
"This is a typical action of an extermination group, pseudo vigilantes who use violence to try to impose their will before the community."
This was Rio's third massacre in less than 40 days.
The police chief noted that the gunmen were careful to gather all the shell casings after the shooting to make more difficult the investigators' work. He also disclosed that three of the victims were killed point blank in the head after having been dominated.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Masked gunmen shot dead five people, including a teenager, during a children's party at a school soccer field on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro over the weekend, police said Monday.
Police in the poor suburb of Nova Iguacu suspected a death squad in the execution-style shootings, which sowed panic among children and parents on Saturday night. Two years ago, Nova Iguacu was the scene of one of Rio's worst death-squad massacres.
"Judging by the way the people were killed, the murders are certainly linked to an extermination group," an investigator, who did not want to be named, told Reuters.
The groups are often made up of off-duty police or former soldiers and charge slum dwellers fees to kill off drug traffickers or thieves.
LinkHere
New Massacre of Youngsters in Brazil. Police Are Main Suspect
Written by Elma Lia Nascimento
Monday, 05 March 2007
Five young men were murdered Saturday night in a school of Nova Iguaçu, in the Baixada Fluminense, an area to the north of Rio and part of the Greater Rio de Janeiro. For police chief Fábio Pacífico Marques, head of the 58th Police Bureau a death squad might be behind the massacre.
"This is a typical action of an extermination group, pseudo vigilantes who use violence to try to impose their will before the community."
This was Rio's third massacre in less than 40 days.
The police chief noted that the gunmen were careful to gather all the shell casings after the shooting to make more difficult the investigators' work. He also disclosed that three of the victims were killed point blank in the head after having been dominated.
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