Dangerous - Brazil - Rio gang shoots up bus
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -Reuters -Nov 4, 2005: -- One woman died and seven people were wounded when presumed drug traffickers armed with assault rifles opened fire into a bus on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, police said on Friday... An investigator said the motive for the shooting was not clear as none of the bus passengers had any obvious links to trafficking. Drug gangs have in the past wiped out rivals inside crammed buses, injuring innocent passengers... The bus came under attack on Thursday night as it passed by the Rebu slum. Police blamed the attack on a criminal group which controls drug trade in the slum and is battling over turf with a rival gang in a nearby slum. The woman who died was travelling with her two small children... On Friday morning, in another part of crime-ridden Rio, residents of Vila Joaniza slum torched a bus to protest the killing of a young man by police in a raid. A teenage girl and a small child were also wounded. Police said they only shot back when greeted with fire by drug traffickers...
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