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Saturday 15 August 2015
19 killed in Sao Paulo shootings; police investigating links
SAO PAULO (AP) — At least the recent shooting deaths Residents stand across the street from a bar where at least 10 people were shot the night before, in
19 people were shot to of two police officers. the Sao Paulo suburb Osasco, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Police in Brazil’s biggest city are inves-
death within the span of At least 10 of the dead tigating the shooting deaths of at least 19 people within the span of about three hours. According
about three hours in Brazil’s were shot at a bar after to police the 10 people were shot dead after hooded men got out of a car and opened fire.
biggest metropolitan area, hooded men got out of a
law enforcement officials car and opened fire. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
said Friday. Not far away, one young
Alexandre de Moraes, the man was shot outside an
head of the Sao Paulo ice cream store. In the
State Public Safety Depart- area, another man was
ment, said at a news con- shot by two men on a mo-
ference that police are torcycle.
trying to determine if Thurs- Other shootings took place
day night’s shootings in the at five other locales.
suburbs of Osasco, Barueri Citing witnesses, Moraes
and Itapevi, on the western said that in at least two in-
outskirts of Sao Paulo, are stances, gunmen wearing
related. face masks arrived and
He said 15 of the victims asked who had criminal
were shot dead in Osasco, histories. Those who said
three were killed in Barueri they did were shot.
and one in Itapevi. Seven “We will investigate if the
people were wounded killings were committed by
and are hospitalized. drug traffickers, by off-duty
The mayor of Osasco, Jorge police officers or were acts
Lapas, told the Globo TV of vengeance for the re-
network the killings may cent killings of two police
have been in reprisal for officers.”q
Brazil Senate leader proposes
ending a Mercosur trade pact
Senate President Renan Calheiros speaks in Brasilia, Brazil.
(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
SAO PAULO (AP) — The nomic blueprint called the
president of the Brazilian “Brazil Agenda” that was
Senate has proposed end- handed to Finance Minister
ing South America’s Mer- Joaquim Levy earlier this
cosur customs union so week. The Brazil Agenda
that Brazil can sign bilateral consists of almost 30 mea-
trade agreements without sures aimed at slowing in-
having to get the approval flation and helping get the
of the group’s other mem- economy growing again.
bers. Mercosur is made up of Bra-
Sen. Renan Calheiros’ pro- zil, Argentina, Uruguay, Par-
posal is part of an eco- aguay and Venezuela.q
