Sao Paulo gang violence kills 81 in 4 days
The Brazilian government offered on Monday to send troops to the business capital Sao Paulo to help combat a wave of gang attacks in which 81 people, many of them police, have died in four days.The gangsters set buses ablaze and shot up banks overnight Sunday after hitting police posts and vehicles across the city and state during Friday and Saturday nights.
Heavily armed police manned checkpoints on main roads as fear gripped the city over the worst wave of crime-related violence in recent memory. Inmates also rioted in about 45 prisons in Sao Paulo state, holding around 200 people hostage, mostly guards, officials said.
My Brazilian co-worker just spoke to her family there. The authorities have shut down cell phone service, in an attempt to disrupt the rioters’ communications. But, of course, the ordinary citizens can’t use their cell phones either.
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